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REMAINS

HISTORICAL & LITERARY

CONNECTED WITH THE PALATINE COUNTIES OF

LANCASTEE AND CHESTEE

PUBLISHED BY

THE CHETHAM SOCIETY.

VOL. XXII.

PRINTED FOR THE CHETHAM SOCIETY.

M.J3.CCC.L.

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JAUBS CBOBSLET, BB4., FrbsidBnt.

HBT. BICBARD PARKINBOH, B.D., F.B.A., ClHOR OV HjkHCHUtBK AKD

PuMCiPii. OF Bi. Bees Cou.sob, Viob-Pkuidsht.
WILLIAM BEAHONT.

THE TEBT BBV. QBOROE BULL B0WEB8, D.D., Dam OP MancbbStik.
BET. THOMAS COBSBB, M.A.
JAHES DEARDEN, F.S.A.
EDWABD HAWEINa, F.B8.. F.aA., F.L.B.
THOUAB HBTWOOD, F.8.A.
W. A. BULTON.
BET. J. FICCOPB, H.A.
RET. P. K RAINES, HJL. VAA.

THE TEN. JOBN BUBBTOM, D.D., AbcbdbaCON 01 HlNCBUTEB.
WILUAH LANQTON. Trbuukbr.
WILLIAU FLEHINQ, H.a. Hon. SBCMTiKT.

^otttta Cefiitriendtfif,

OR

HISTORIC NOTICES OF THE DIOCESE

OF CHESTER,

BY THE

RIGHT REV. FRANCIS GASTRELL, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF 0HB8TBR.

NOW TIBST PBHrTBD FBOK THE OBiaiNAL ICAITUBOBIFr, WITH ILLXTSTBATITE

AND XXPLANATOBY NOTES,

BY

THE REV. F. R. RAINES, M.A. F.S.A.

BUBjLL dean, HON. OANON 07 HANOHESTEB, AND
INCUMBENT 07 XZLNBOW.

VOL. II.— PART III.

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ASTOR, LENO-^ AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1897.

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ildS^ffdN/ about 4001 p.[er] aii.[iium,] 61 Acres of |g^ ^ * {^
Glebe, and 7 Cottages. ^^; S;i|; J

Patron, Mr. Filkington, the pres.[ent] Rectour, who ^"^ - ^'^^' ®

had the Advowson from Mr. Layfield.^ ^hoie pm?

This Church was approp.[riated] by Pope Martin 5, to y« Mon. jSSi *.'.'.*.'.*. oo
[astery] of Syon near London, reserving a power to y« Ordinary
to assign a fit portion out of y« profits to y« Vicar, by vertue of w^'*
y«Bp. of Cov. [entry] and Litch. [field] an. [no] 1420, founded a
Vicaridge, (the presentation to w*'* was to be in y* Abbesse and
Convent of Syon;) and y* value of y* Recty being then com-
puted at 130 marks, otS&-18^-4Aj y« Bp. ordered y* y« Vicar sh^
pay y« Mon. [astery] 80 marks, and keep y® other 50, or 33i'6*.8d,

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1 Dedicated to St. MicbaeL Value in 1834» £1,688. Registers begin in 1728.

The Manor of Oroston was given hy Edmund Leigh, who, in the 17th Edward I.
married AnnabeUa^ daughter and coheiress of Bichard Fitton, Lord of Qreat Har-
wood, to Sir William Heskayte, who had married Matilda, another daughter of
Bichard Fitton ; and this donation was confirmed by Sir William Leigh in the 22d
Edward III. 1348. A moiety of the Manor, howerer, appears to have been Tested in
Sir John De la Mere before this time, and Isabel and Isolda were his daughters and
coheiresses ; the former haying married Sir Thomas Fleming, Baron of Wath $ and
the latter, William del Lee, who, in the 46th Edward IIL held the moiety of the
Manor of Croston and Maudislegh. Elizabeth, the daughter of William, and sister
and coheiress of John Fleming Esq. Baron of Wath, mairied Thomas Heskayte Esq.;
and Alice, the daughter and heiress of William Lee, married Thoznas Ashton, the
fekther of Sir William Ashton of Croston, about the time of Henry YI. ; and the
moieties of the Manor of Oroston became vested in the fiunilies of Ashton and Hes-
keth. Ann, daughter and coheiress of Bichard Ashton Esq. married John Trafibrd
Esq. who died in the year 1886, whose representative, Sir Thomas Joseph de Trafford
Bart, is now seized of a moiety of the Manor of Croston ; and Monaoha, the other
daughter and coheiress of Bichard Ashton Esq. married Alexander, son of Bar-
tholomew Hesketh of Aughton Esq. and conveyed the other moiety to his fiunily,
which was sold by Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh Bart, to the Bev. Streynsham
Master D.D. Bector of Croston, who conveyed it by sale, about the year 1825, to
Tliomas Norris Esq.

A Church existed here at the Conquest, when Boger de Foictou granted to the
Monastery of St. Martin of Sees in Kormandy, the Priory of St. Mary of Lancaster,
and many dependent Churches and Chapels, among which is named the Church of
Oroston. The patronage, however, appears to have been exercised by the Priory of

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354 jStotttta CtfMitmisk.

to himself^ together with all other profits that could be made of
the living. In consid. [eration] of w«^ he sh^ bear all Burdens^
and pay to [the] B.[ishop] of Gov. [entry] and Litch. [field] &-S^;
to [the] A. [reh] D. [eacon] of Richmond^ [" Chester/' is inserted
in another handj 13" -44; and to y® Poor, 10s; and should swear
to perform these things at his Institution. Old Reff.[i8ter,'] xx.

An. [no] 30, H.[enry] 8, the Rect.[ory] and Vicaridge were
leased out by y® Mon.[astery] and Vicar, from 5 years to 5 years,
to y« end of 99 years, the Lessee paying to y« Vicar, 38i«5«-10^
p.[er] an.[num,] and to [the] Mon.[astery,] 53^ '6" -8^; to [the]
B.[ishop] of Chester, &-S^, and to [the] Archd. [eacon] of Chester,
88* -8^, for Syn. Proc. and Indemnityes, and 10" to the Poor:

Lancaster. '^Croston Beet. Sententia Delegatorum Gregorii Paps super quadam
penflione annue 2 marc. Will. Banaster Bectori tercie partis Eccl. de Croston cum
medietate CapeU. de Eodeston ab Abbatia de Fumes predicto Bectori debit. Hiis
testibus Job. de Taunton, Preoentore majoris Eccl. Lincoln et aliis." This ancient
Listrument is now in the Augmentation Office, marked A.B. and shews that Eccles-
ton, now a Bectory, was formerly only a Ghapell. — Ducarel's JBeperiory of the
Endowment of Vicarages, toL u. JLamb, lAbr, In the year 1588 a stipend of
£3. 19s. 9d. was payable out of the possessions of the Duchy of Lancaster to the
Clerk of Croston. — Birch's MS8, Brit, Mus. It was yalued in the year 1291 at
£33. 6s. Sd. and no Chapels are then mentioned. Martin V. who succeeded to the
Popedom in the year 1417, appropriated the Bectory to the Abbey of St. Sayiour of
Sion ; and William de Heyworth, Bishop of Lichfield, ordained a Vicarage in the
year 1420.

On the dissolution of the Monastery of Sion the Adyowsons passed to the Crown,
and were conyeyed inier aUa to Anthony Browne of Southweld in the county of Essex
Esq. Justice of the Common Pleas. They were afterwards frequently sold. The
Crown, howerer, occasionally exercised the right of patronage, probably through de-
fect ; and on the 10th of December 1695, Zachary Taylor M. A. was presented to the
Bectory by William III. on ''the recommendation of certain Commissioners appointed
by the King to dispose of Ecclesiastical promotion in his absence from England.*'
In the year 1755 the patronage became yested in Legh Master Esq. M.P. whose son,
the Bey. Bobert Master D.D. was afterwards Bector, and whose grandson, Streynsham
Master D.D. is the present Bector. Dr. Master sold the Adyowsons to Le Qendre
Nicholas Starkie of Huntroyd Esq. who in the year 1821 again conyeyed them by sale
to Qeorge Smith Esq. M.P. brother of Lord Carrington.

There are two Chapels in the Church called the Bufford and Becconsall Chapels.
The former was a Chantry founded by the Heskeths, and dedicated to St. John the
Baptist. Queen Elizabeth, in the 27th year of her reign, at the instance of Thomas,

Seanets of l^IatiQ. 355

And the Vicar covenants to pay 4^ p.[er] an.[numj w**» y« accus-
tomed Advantages to y® Parish Priest^ and 4 marks to the Chap-
lain of Chorley, his Sub-Curate; and to pay 10«n to y« King, viz.
81 . 16b . 7d^ [£6. 18s. 4d. ?] O. [W] B. [e^/er,] /*.

Receipt of [the] Vicar of Croston, an. [no] 1442 : Be it knowne
to all men y* I, Tho.[mas] Carlton, [''Tarlton/' in Harl M8S.
2042, fol. 289,] Vicker of y« Church of Croston, berith witnesse
and certyfy y* Mr. James Standish of Tuxbury, [Duxbury,] hath
delivered a relique of S* Laurence ['s] head into y« Church of
Chorley, y« w«i» S' Rowland Stanley [Standish] K*, brother of y«
sayd James, and Dame Jane his wife, brought out of Normandy, to
y« worship of God and S* Laurence, for y« profit and auayle of y«

Earl of Ormond and OsBory, granted to Edmund Doming and Boger Bant, all the
lands giren bj Bobert Hesketh in aid of the Salary of the late Chantry Priest, and
which Chantry and other premises had been oonyeyed to Sir Thomas Hesketh for
twenty-one years. In the 32d Elisabeth the grantees sold the Church's Bell of St.
John the Baptist cum pert, to Thomas Ashton of Croston, and Balph Asheton of
Lerer Esqrs. In the South, or ** Bufford Chapel," are the arms of Hesketh, in the
East window. In the "Becconsall Chapel," styled a Chantry in the year 1635, which
passed to the Banastres of Bank in the serenteenth century, is this inscription,
painted on the oak, in old English oharaoters, — " W^ CffOppel bias beobttSd), anil
tfjis seat rrrctetl, 1682, hg Cipnstopi^rr iSantastte £9q." These Chapels were purchased
by the Bector of Sir Thomas D. Hesketh Bart.

From an inscription on the North side of the Steeple it appears that the Church
was rebuilt in the sixteenth century. In the year 1650 the Parliamentary Inquisitors
found the Yicarage-house and lands of Croston to be worth £13 per annum ; several
messuages, gardens, and lands in Croston worth £7. 6s. 2d. per annum. The Tithes of
all the Townships belonged to the Living. A yearly donative of 56s. 5d. was payable to
the Beceiver for the State. Mawdisley and Bispham, parcel of the said Vicarage, were
worth £70 a year. " Mr. James Hyatt B.D. a godly and able Min% doth supply the
Cure there, and hath been Bector for 25 years, and received the s' Vicarage-house,
Lands, Tithes, &c. ; but 12 years agoe he demised the Tithes of Mawdisley and Bisp-
ham to James, then Lord Strange, now Earl Derby, for the life of the s** Incumb^
reserving £13. 6s. 8d. to the Min'. These are now seq**, owing to the Delinquency of
the s' Earl, and are worth £60 a y'." The Inquisitors further reported that '* it is
very needful to build a new Church at Mawdisley, near the four Lane Ends, whereof
one is called GK>r8ey Lane, for the use of the Inhab^ of Mawdisley and Wrightington,
being 112 families and 514 persons, who, for the most part, all the Wynter tyme, are
debarred from their s^ antient Parish Church of Croston, and from all other Churches
and Chapels within the compaes of four miles." The Inquisitors also recommended

356 fijomUi etminmii^

s<^ Church, to y« intent y* y« foresayd S' Rowland and Dame Jane
his wife, the sayd James and his wife, w^^ y' predecessours and
successours, may be in y« said Church perpetually prayed for; and
in witnesse of the which to this my present wryting I have sett
my Scale. Written at Croston afforsayd, y« 2^ day of March in
y« year of our Lord God 1442. MS. Hulm. 96, b. 7.

An. [no] 1504, [a] Clerk [was] Instituted to y« Vicaridge only
upon [the] Present, [ation] of [the] Mon.[astery] of S* SaTiour of
Sion. Inst.[itfition] B.[ook,'] 1, p. 2.

An. [no] 1557, Ant.[hony] Brown Esq. presented to y« Vicar-
idge. lb. p. 49.

An. [no] 1628, the Bp. Collated to y^ Vicaridge by Lapse. Inst.
[ittUion] B.[ookj'] 2, p. 75.

that the Vicarage, "and about £168. 6fl. lOd.*' per »^nTiiiTw^ should remain to the
Parish of Croston, and not be divided and taken from the same. After all payments
deducted, the laying was valued at £800. 9s. Sd. per annum. — Pari, Inq. Lamb, Libr,
Tol. ii.

In the year 1748 a Brief was obtained for rebuilding Croston Church. — UGlmnw
Register.

In the year 1798, 88d Gborge m. the Bey. Robert Master D.D. the Rector, Vicar,
and Patron of this laying, obtained an Act of Parliament to enable him to separate
the Chapels of Chorlej and BufTord from the Mother Church of Croston, and to con-
stitute them two distinct Parish Churches. The three Rectories so formed were to
be held by Dr. Master during his Incumbency, or to be resigned at his pleasure, and
the Patronage to be vested in him, his heirs, and assigns, for ever ; whilst the friture
Bectors of Croston were discharged from all rights, tithes, profits, duties, and respon-
sibilities of the two new Parishes. By this judicious act the influence of the Church
was much increased, the parishioners were benefited by haying immediate pastoral
superintendence, and the opprobrium removed of a Parish, almost as large as a Dio-
cese, being assigned to the spiritual care of one Incumbent.

Bishop Ghistrell having probably objected to the mode of Leasing the Glebe Lands
of Croston, in the year 1720, several of the " ancient Inhab** of the Township of
Croston, within the Parish of Croston," certified that they had known for fifty years
then past, and upwards, the Messuages and Lands in Croston, reputed to be parcel of
the Bectory, late in the tenure of John Thornton, and fifteen others, whose names
are given, and that the same Messuages during their remembrance (and immemorially
as they verily believed,) had been accustomably Leased by the Bectors ; and, for the
satisfisMstion of the Bishop, they certify that in the year 1637 Mr. James Hyet, then
Hector, made several Leases of the said Messuages in consideration of certain Eines^
and sums of money, therein mentioned, for twenty-one years, if he so long lived, and

9tmtts of lesIanB* 857

An. [no] 1625, K.png] Ch.[arles] I. presented to [the] Vicar-
idge, waA cum Bectorid.. lb. 76, 109. He seems to have pre-
sented by Lapse, as the Bp. did, an. [no] 1624, Collate y* same
person by Lapse to [the] Rect. [ory] and Vicaridge, who was Col-
lated to [the] Vicaridge only an. [no] 1628. /*. 105.

The Parish is divided into 4 Quarters ; 1, Croston and Eufford. CofDntf.
2, Brotherton and Uhieswalton. 8, Maudesley, Bispham, and
Hesketh-Bank. 4, Tarlton — [which is] much less j^ y« rest,
because Much Hool and Little Hool are taken out of it, by Act
of Pari*.

There are 4 Churchwardens ; one [of them] is chosen by [the]
Beet, [or,] in [the] village of Croston. The other Villages name
three; out of w<^^ the Rect.[or] chooses one for y« district wherein
he is to serve. [There are] 8 Assist, [ants.]

continued Bector, reeemng tlierein the old and accuBtomed Bents. —That in March
1668, these Leases expiring, the said Mr. Hyet made new Leases for a similar term,
for which Fines were also paid. — That on the death of Mr. Hjet, James Pilkington,
Ckaiky snoceeding him as Sector, made similar Leases, on which similar Fines were
paid. — That Mr. James PiDdngton, a little before his death, on the 6th of April 1688,
had contracted with the then Tenants for new Leases, in the form aforesaid ; but his
death prerented their being perfected. That Dr. Charles Layfield succeeded him in
the Bectory, and made Leases from three years to three years, to be continued for
the term of twenty-one years, if he so long liyed, upon Back Bents, payable at Whit-
suitide and Martinmas ; but no Fines were paid on such Leases. On the 14th of
June 1688, Dr. Layfield resigning, and Mr. John Byley being his successor, the like
method of Leasing was continued by him which Dr. Layfield had begun; and, on Mr.
Byley*s death, in September 1689, Mr. Bobert Pickering, lus successor, obserred the
same method of Leasing, as well as Mr. Taylor, who died in December 1703; upon
whose death, Mr. William Pilkington, then Bector, pursued the last named method
of Leasing. The ancient Counterparts of the Leases, which had been preserved, and
the Bental Book belonging to the Bectory, could be produced to confirm the State-
ments made. Dated Feb. 21, 1720. — Qastrell's MS8, in the Registry at Chester,

' The Ber. Charles Layfield D.D. Prebendary of Winchester, became Bector of
Croston in the year 1683, and shortly afterwards resigned the Liying. He appears
to hare sold the Adrowson in the year 1703 to the Bey. William Pilkington, and to
haye died in the year 1711. By his Will dated the 10th of Februaiy 1710, he gaye
the principal part of his residuary Estate to the Poor of Winchester and Chilbolton
in the county of Southampton, Wrotham in Kent, Croston in Lancashire, and Tewin
in Hertfordshire. This amounted in the year 1760 to £1,889. 7s. 4d. ; and Croston

358 Aotttta tf eKtrfetusift.

SolU, [There are] 5 Ancient Seats. Croston,^ RuflFord,* Bank^^ Bisp-

ham^^ Littlewood Hall,^ [Mawdsley.^]

j^d^0Ol. ^I^K ^t Gram. [mar] School here was Founded an.[no] 1660, by
^^S James Hiet^^ then Rector of Croston, and is free to [the]
Towns, [hips] of Croston and Ulneswalton. [The] Income is 15^
p.[er] an.[num;] l(fi of w«^ is p^ out of Land in Eccleston, pur-
chased w*^ 200^ given by y« s^ Hiet; and 5^, [the] Int.[erest] of
100^ given (in 1680,) by Mr. [William] Houghton, formerly
Schoolmaster here.

There are 19 Trustees, who nominate y« Master. Ev.[ery]
Scholar pays 12^, (or 6^, if a cottager's child,) apiece, for entrance,
accord, [ing] to [the] Founder's Order.

The Writings are kept, in a Box made for y* purpose, by one of
y« Trustees.
Bi^^am The School here was Founded an. [no] 1692, by Mr. Rich.[ard]
9t^oo piu^nijig^ and is firee to all y* come. He gave his Lands in

had £416. 15b. 7d. assigned as a portion for its Poor, — wluch was inyested in Land.
Dr. Layfield was son of Edward Layfield D.D. Archdeacon of Essex, and nephew, in
half blood, of Archbishop Laud. — See Heylin*8 Itfe of Laiud^ p. 42; Newcoart*s
Mep, Eccles. yoL L p. 74 ; Wood's Aihen, yoL i. p. 859.

' Croston Hall was rebuilt in the seventeenth century ; and has been taken down
within liring memory, and the present fabric erected. It consists of a centre and
wings, terminating in gables, pleasantly situated, but now in bad repair. It is the
property of Sir Thomas Joseph de Trafford Bart.

^ Bufford old Hall, the ancient seat of the Hesketh family, is surrounded by park-
like grounds, and is built of wood and plaster. Many of the rooms are panelled, and
richly ornamented with exi^sitely carved figures and beautiful foliage. It appears
to hare been built in the fifteenth century. It was lately occupied by the Bev.
Thomas Chamberlain M.A. Rector of Bufibrd. The entrance-hall is a splendid room
with a hammer • beamed roof^ and the carving similar, if not superior in execution to
that of Westminster Hall, which this room, on a smaller scale, resembles ; but with
the important addition of a magnificent screen. The drawing-room has an open
carved roof^ with a singular door-way, which has originally commimicated with a
minstrel-gallery. It is the property of Sir Thomas George Hesketh Bart.

BufTord Hall was erected by Sir Thomas D. Hesketh Bart, in the year 1798. The
East front has a portico consisting of four Ionic columns, which is all the external
ornament which this large and handsome house possesses. The Estate has been in
the family since the 4th Edward I. The Park is laid out in beautiful style.

9taxms of i^slaM. 359

Wrightington, Parbold, and Walton, to charitable uses w«^
amount now (an. [no] 1722,) to 45i.l».8^ P-[®^] an.[nuni,] 12^
p.[er] an.[num] out of w^ being ded.[ueted] for certain uses
named in his Will, the residue is given to y« School; 10* p.[er]
an.[num] to [be paid to the] Trustees for [the] charge of meeting
once a year; the Best to [the] Master.

V.[ide] nom.[ination] during pleasure, an. [no] 1696, Pap. Beg.
by y« Trustees.

The School here was Founded by Mr. Jam.[es] Fletcher of JSrofi&ertDti
Lond.[on,] Merch*, [who was bom at Brotherton, and who was
instigated by his wife Jane, to do something for the place,] an. [no]
1653, who gave to it sev.[eral] Lands in Musberry, Eccleston,
and Leyland, [the] profits of w«^ amount to 24A»16-8^, w*^ y« Int.
[erest] of 32^ in money ; and 7^ has since arisen from Timber sold
oflFy® Lands in Eccleston. Out of these profits is ded.[ucted] 2(y»
p.[er] an.[num,] for [the] repair of a Causey in Thorp Row, and
[a] Sermon, and Dinner for [the] Trustees, ev.[ery] 10*^ of
April, w*^ bread, cheese, and drink for all y® Scholars, at y«
same time. [The] Residue [is] to [be paid to the] Master, who is
nominated by y« Trustees, 15 in number.

' Bank Hall, with the date 1606 incised oyer the West door, is a stately reno-
yated brick mansion in the Elizabethan style, with gables, pinnacles, and a fiinciful
tower in the centre, containing a clock. Bank was in the possession of the Banastres
prior to the reign of Edward 11. Henry Banastre Esq. died here in the 2d Henry
Yin. ; and the seventh in male descent from him was Christopher Banastre Esq.
Sheriff of Lancashire in the year 1670, who by Mary, daughter of Sir Balph Assheton
of Middleton Bart, had a daughter and coheiress, who married Thomas Fleetwood
of Bank,y«r0 uxorisy ancestor of G-. A. Legh Keck Esq. the present owner.

> Bispham Hall is a plain stone building, erected in the seventeenth century.
Andrew de Bispham held the Manor in the 16th Edward I. It is now the property
of Lord Skelmersdale.

7 Littlewood Hall is now a farm-house, in Ulnes Walton, and sinoe the year 1600, the
property of the ffaringtons of Worden. In the year 1438 it was the seat of Sir William
Asheton £nt. when a sentence of Divorce was pronounced between him and Alice,
daughter of John Lacy Esq. in the Conventual Church of Warrington, by Robert
Madderer B.CJJ. official of the Archdeacon of Chester, and confirmed in the year 1458
by Oliver Legh B.C.L. the same Archdeacon's official. — Lane, MSS. voL zxiv. p. 403.

' Mawdsley BUI was in the possession of Adam de Maudesley in the 36th Edwazd

^ >J

\

860

fijotHiA tf entriemfo*

[The] School is free only to [the] Inhab.[itaiit8,] upon pay-
ment of 12^ for ev. [ery] Scholar, for entrance.

[The] Writings [are] in y« hands of Joh.[n] Hodges^ one of y«
Trustees.
JBLm^tiUfi Here is a poor thatched Cottage made use of for a School^ to
fft^au teach and to read in. The Stipend to y« Master, who must be a
Protestant, is 1^*3"«6^ P*[6f] an.[num,] arising out of an Estate s
near Preston, bought by Mr. Tho*. Crook of Abram, (in 1688,)
for 500^, y« Income of w«^ goes to sev.[eral] Charit.[able] uses.

€vaitan

n Almshouse was erected here an. [no] 1692, by Mr. [Henry]
Croston of Croston, who gave 150^, the Int.[erest] of w^ [to
be paid] tow.[ard8] y« maintenance of 8 poor women, who have
each of y™ a dwelling house in it.

The Poor Stock is 8851, yi^. 501 giyen (in 1668,) by W.[imam]
Dandy, Grocer; 175^ by W. Hesketh, Shoemaker; 10^ by Mr.
Croston; lO^, 5^, and 84 pounds, by other Parish"; the Improve-
ment of w^ Gifts amounts to 76^ more. SO^ of this money is laid
out in an Estate belong, [ing] to Mr. Farington; the other is out

IIL; and the last of the fiuooily, Eobert Maudesley Esq. was Uying here about the
year 1760. The Estate was purchased by Alexander Kershaw of Heskin Hall Esq.
(son of Bolph Kershaw of Bochdale and his wife Catherine, daughter and heiress of
Lewis, fourth son of John Chadwick of Healey Esq.) who, by Will dated the 24th of
Hay 1786, (he ob. in 1788, et. ninety-two,) devised his large landed property to
Tmstees, for the use of his yarious natural children, who all died issueless, or inca-
pable of taking any beneficial interest under his Will ; and the presumed descend-
ants of the Testator's sisters obtained a verdict at Lancaster Spring Assize in the
year 1887. The house is of timber and plaster, beautifully situated, and oyer a
fire-place in one of the rooms are the arms of Maudesley.

* The Bey. James Hiet B.D. was instituted to the Bectory of Croston on the 25th
of April 1626, on the nomination of Charles I. by lapse. He died suddenly at Pres-
ton, on the 6th of April 1663, and "was buried at Croston without ceremony or
booke.'' By his Will dated the 18th of March 1662-8, he recites that he had pro-
cured a Free School House to be built in Croston Church-yard, at his own great
cost and trouble. He did not bequeath any sum for an endowment ; but leaying a
blank in his Will, added a note in the margin of it, " K I fill not up this before
my death, it is my will that it should be £400." The Master was to teach his 6cho>
lars ''the principles of the Christian Beligion." On the 16th of July 1663, Mary

Seamrs ^< l^sIaHS* 961

at Int.[erest. The] Income of y« whole Stock is 18^ P-[er] an.
[numj V¥^^ is laid out yearly in Cloth^ and binding out Appren-
tices^ by certain Trustees^ who keep a Register of w^ is laid out.
By Will dated 10th Feb. 1710, Dr. Layfield gave to the poor of
various places the fourth part of his Estate, and Croston has a share.

An. [no] 1621, left by John Hough, Yeoman, [the] Int. [crest] ©Inrt
of 52^, to be Given in bread, ev.[ery] Sunday, to poor House- c^aritM*
keepers, who are Protestants, and receive no Alms from y« Parish.
Peter Latham, in 1700, gave Lands to the Poor. Given to the Poor
of this townsP an. [no] 1653, by Jam. [es] Glasbrook, 5^ p. [er] an.
[num,] y^^ is now paid out of Land lying in this TownsP.

[There is] 4^ p.[er] an. [num] given to y* Poor of this Hamlet, Butp^aon
by Mr. Rich^ Burning, (in 1675,) out of his Estate at Wrighting- Cftaritte^*
ton, &c.; and 1^ p.[er] an. [num,] for Repairing y« Bye-wayes in
Bispham; and 6^ P-[ei*] an. [num,] for Binding poor children
apprentice, every three y.[ears] in Seven.

No other Charity but 1^ p.[er] an. [num] to y^* Poor of this Bmti^frtan
TownsP, [which] is given by Eliz.[abeth] Farrer, out of a tenem^ ^^ ^*
in Brotherton, during y^ life of her nephew, Tho.[ma8] Farrer,
the only Life remaining in y« Lease.

Given to y^ Poor of Maudesley near Blackmore, by John Stop- fgUixCtttiltfi
ford, an. [no] 1657, 40*^ p.[er] an. [num,] for ever, out of certain CJarttW.
closes in Eccleston ; and David Stopford, his son, an. [no] 1669,
left 10« p.[er] an. [num] to y« poorest people about Blackmore,
out of Land in Ecdeston. There is likewise 23* -6^ paid out of
an Estate near Preston; 5^ p-[er] an. [num] left by Mr. Darning,
for binding out apprent.[ices] every seventh year.

Hiet, the widow and Executrix of James Hiet, (** whom for peace sake he was forced
in some measnre to slight his own children for," Newoome*s JXary, p. 197, although
Galamy says he had none to slight, toL ii. p. 859,) obtained an acquittance for £200 ;
but the residue of the £400, does not appear to haye been paid. Mr. Hiet, in the
year 1664, was a party to the founding and endowing of Brotherton School by Mrs.
Jane Fletcher, who seems to hare been more actirely employed in the good work
than her wealthy husband. I haye in my possession one or two of Mr. Hiet*s beau-
tifully written letters, from which he appears to haye been a person of learning and
piety, and quite atiye to his own interests.

VOL. II.] 3 A

362 fijoma

F<un 17 W^ WfC^^VShH^lf^ alias Heskbth

^^ Bank, Certdf.ped] 021.078. 11V being
a Debenture payable out of y« Dutchy Court, yf^^ was w**»lield for
ab^ 18 years, till Mr. Pilkington,^ y^' present Rector of Croston,
recovered it ab^ eleven years ago, by whose care y^ Chapel has
been rebuilt, and is supplied six times a year. Certif.[ied] 1717.
8 m. [iles] from Croston ; 5 [miles] from [the] next Chap, [el.]

1 Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £95. Begisters begin in 1746.

Sir WiUiam Hesketh held the Manor of Heeketh and Beoonsaw in the 4th Edward
I. ; but, at an early period, the latter was yeeted in the family of Beconsall, and con-
tinued in their possession until the time of William m. when it became the property
of John Molineuz Esq. from whom it passed, through an heiress, to the Heskethv,
and is now held by Sir Thomas Q«orge Hesketh Bart, the representatiye and descend-
ant of its feudal owner, Sir William Hesketh.

Beoonsall Chapel was built in the sixteenth century by the Beconsall fionily, and
originally designed for domestic worship. In the year 1660 the Chapel was re-
turned as being two statute miles from the place where the new Church was in
building within Tarlton, and aboye four miLes from Hesketh, and ought to be made
FaroduaL It was also stated that " there is a great riyer called Astlond, [Asland,]
oyer which the said Inhabitants cannot passe to Croston Church without a Boat,
neyther can they pass with a Boat in some seasons of the year by reason of the great
inundation of the sayd Waters, and also by reason of the greate Byyer of Douglas,
the Fumey Poole, and the Byyer of Yarrow oyerflowing the ways for the most part
of all the Winter time." No mention is made of any Endowment or Minister. —
^arl. Inq. Lamb, Idbr. yoL iL In the year 1766 the Chapel was again rebuilt and
enlarged. It is a plain brick fsibric, with a turret and one belL In the year 1821 an
Act of Parliament was obtained to sever Hesketh and Becconsall Chapel from Croston,
and to eleyate Hesketh to the rank of an independent Parish Church and Bectoiy.
The Adyowson being yested in the Bey. Streynsham Master of Croston, the present
Bector of Hesketh with Becconsall, was sold by him to Sir T. D. Hesketh Bait»
whose son is the present Patron.

' In the year 1688 this Debenture was returned as being £2. 166. 6d. — Baines's
SkL ofLcmo, yoL i. p. 180.

> The Bey. William Pilkington L.L.D. became Bector in the year 1708, and died in
the year 1766. His daughter and heiress, Margaret, married the Bey. Streynsham
Master M.A. second son of Sir Streynsham Master £nt. of Codnor Castle in the
county of Derby, ancestor of Charles Legh Hoskins Master, now of Codnor^ and
Barrow Qreen House in the county of Surrey, Esq.

9eaiiet5 of %tslatiO. 868

lfteVHW»f' Certif.[ied] 33i.06».00d, atjap.^ar.

viz. 201 pd by [the] Rect.[or] of Cros- m.t.
ton; 9*«6»-0^, rent of Closes w^in Clithero^ containing aboiit 13
acres, bought with 200^ given by Hen.[ry] Banaster, an. [no] 1625,
who gave 600^ toward y« maintenance of Preaching Ministers in

^ Dedicated to St. Laurenee. Value in 1884^ £1,022. Begisten of Baptisms and
Bnrials begin in 1548, and of Marriages, in 1624.

The Manor of Chorlegh was held in chie^ by William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, in
the 86th Henry III. and was granted by his grandson, William de Ferrers of Groby,
about the 14th Edward U. io Bichard de Lethebourgh, who conyeyed it to Henry de
Lacy, Earl of liincoln. The Earl, by a yery ample Charter, granted it to Bobert de
Heppewel and Margaret his wife : but the £unily of Chorley had held the mesne Manor
from a period soon after the Conqnest, of the chief Lords of the fee, and by a deed s.d.
Henry de Heppewal, Lord Bonrchier, granted to William de Chorley, kite Lord of
Chorley, the mill and doyeoote of Chorley, the said William haying released all his
Manors of Chorley, Chamock, Qogard, and Helegh, with the Parks of Chorley and
Helegh, which had been forfeited by the attainder of the said William de Chorley.
Before the 22d Edward lY. Lord le Strange and Sir Bichard Sherbum were the joint
Lords of the Manor. The Sherbnm portion passed to the Welds of Lnlworth, by
whom it was sold abont the year 1806-7 to Thomas GKllibrand of Chorley Hall Esq.
who, at his death in the year 1829, was succeeded by his son Henry, who had, in the
year 1816, assumed the name of Fasakerley. The moiety of Lord le Strange was sold
l>y his descendant, William, Earl of Derby, for £900, in the 88th Elizabeth, to Edward
Bigby of Burgh Esq. and was held by Alexander Bigby Esq. in the year 1664.

The Chapel of Chorley existed at a yery early period, as by deed s.d. Henry, Lord
Bourdhier, gpranted to William de Chorley, late Lord of Chorley, the entire South
mediefy of his Chapel of Chorley. It afterwards became a dependency of Croston,
and was separated from the Mother Church and formed into a separate and distinct
Parish by an Act of the 88d George HL The great and small Tithes of the Town-
ship of Chorley, and the great Tithes of Bretherton, Mawdesley, and Bispham, were
annexed to the new Parish Church of Chorley, and oonyeyed to the Bector for the
time being, for eyer $ but these three Townships, and their small Tithes, were con-
firmed to the Bectors of Croston, whilst an annual payment of £20 due to the Curate
pf Chorley oeased to be paid. A yearly payment of the fourth part of an ancient pen-
sion of £45. 14b. 4d. to the King, was charged upon the Bectory of Chorley, and power
giyen to the Bector to reoeiye, by gift or deyise, twenty acres of land, on which to
build a Parsonage*house. The Bey. J. S. Master is the Patron and Bector.

The Naye of the Church is Early English, but the Tower is not older than the time
of Edward YI. In the year 1656 a plan of the Church and a platform of the pews
-were made. On the South side of the Chancel is a Chapel or Few belonging to the

864 fijotitUi Ce0tnrmto*

Laucashire.^ This is a district by itself^ for w^ there are two
Chap. [el] Wardens; one chosen by [the] Mm.[ister^ and the]
other by [the] Inhab.[itantsJ out of 4 persons proposed whose
estates have been longest excused from y« office. These Wardens
pay 7" p.[er] an.[num] to y« Churchward" of Croston. 2 Assist,
[ants.] V.[ide] Cboston : receipt of y^ Yicar^ 1442.

fieunily of Standish of Duzbnrj, md there are sereral monuneiits and armorial
ensignB of that fiunily in the Church. The head of St. Laurence has disappeared, bat
four bones are still preserved in the Standish Chapel, said to have been brought out
of Normandy by Sir Bowland Standish, in the year 1442.

In the year 1650 the Parliamentary Inquisitors returned this Chapeliy as ** for-
merly part of Croston," the endowment being a Cottage and a little land, worth 8s.
per annum ; a donative of £200, given by Henry Banaster of Haddnge, (mo) de-
oeased ; and £16 given by Balf Lever, intended for a Preaching Minister at Chorley.
With these sums certain lands were purchased at Clitheroe, of the yearly yalue of
£10, but for the last half-year the Salary had been detayned by Balf Lever and
Bichard Haydock of Chorky, yeomen, feoffees ; also £3. 6s. 8d. intended for a
Preaching Minister, given by Hugh Brindle^ late of Chorley, deceased. Mr. Henry
Welsh, a pious preaching Pastor, had 63s. 4d. paid him by Mr. Hyett, Bector of
Croston, and since the year 1645 £18 by the Committee of the County. The Chapel
was six miles from the Mother Church, and the district fit to be made a Parish of
itself. — ^arl. Inq, Ltmtb, laJbr, vol. ii. In the year 1706 the Incumbent stated that
his Parochial Chapel was four miles from Croston ; that the Bector allowed, out of
the Tithes of Chorley, £20 a year to the Curate ; and that the Farm in Clitheroe was
let for £9 a year. — NotUia Paroch, Lamb, lAbr.

Dr. Kuerden gives a different account of the old endowment : — "The Church hath
a cottage and half a rood of land belonging to it, and a Donative of £200 given by
one Hen. Banastre, late of Hackney, dec<*. Another Donative of £20 given by Bafo
Lever of Chorley, and is layd upon lands in Cliderow. Another Donative of
£3. 6s. 8d. given towards a Preaching Minister."— Jfi^iS. Marl. Bih, Cbd. 7306.

' Heniy Banister was the younger son of Mr. Thomas Banister of Preston, and his
wife Alice, daughter of Mr. Qeorge Hodgkinson. His grandfather, William Baniater
of Preston, had obtained a good Estate by marriage with the daughter and coheiress
of John Singleton of Singleton Gent. The family appears to have been engaged in
mercantile pursuits, although William Banister, an Alderman of Preston, was living,
and recorded a Pedigree, at Dugdale*s Visitation, in the year 1666. This gentkanaa
was the elder brother of Mr. Henry Banister of Hackney, who, by Will dated the
16th of July 1626, and by a Codicil thereto, dated the 18th of June 1628^ beqfosathed,
after the sale of his lands, £600, to be disposed of by Sir William Bowe and others,
his feoffees, " towards the maintenance and settling of a Minister, or Ministers of
Gbd's Word, to water the dry and barren places of the County of Lancaster, if they

9eamt5 of l^esbmB* 865

4 m.[iles] from [the] Par.[i8li] Church; 8 from [the] next
Ch.[apel.]
8 Ancient Seats : Astley,^ Chorley,* Cross Hall.« «alW.

art is a School, but [not] free to any. How, or by whom t^aah
it was Founded, (in 1611,) is not known. The Income
belong, [ing] to it is 20" p.[er] an.[num,] out of Lands in Ingall,
[Ingol,] given by W"» Mason, an. [no] 1688; 5*p.[er] an.[num]
left by Hugh Cooper, charged upon Lands in Chorley ; 85i- [18>*
7^] given by [the] Officers of [the] Pari* Army, [viz. of Major
Oen. Asheton's Brigade, in 1648,] out of arrears of pay, [the]
Int.[ere8t] of w<*, (amounting together w**» principall to 8© odd
money,) was setded by a Decree of [the] Chanc.[ery] Court at
Lancaster, (in 1667,) upon Trustees, who had y^ Bight to nomi-
nate y^ Master, but they being now dead 'tis doubtfull where y«
Bight is lodged; [and the money has been long since lost.]
V.[ide] Nom. [ination] of a Master an. [no] 1691. Pap. Beg.

should think fit.*' On the Ist of March 1636, ^eSOO, part of the said £600, was
inyeflted in the purchase of lands near Preston, for the benefit of a preaching Minister
in the town of Preston, who should preach and teaoh the people according to the
Soblesiastiaal laws of the realm. The lands named in the text, were purchased for
the liying of Chorlej, with £200, another part of the said £600, brfore the year
1642. Mr. Banister also bequeathed, by Will, £200 to the Corporation of Preston,
lor Apprenticing poor Children. This sum was also inyested in land, afterwards, un-
fortunately, demised along with that purchased for the Yioar of Preston, for one
thousand years, subject to an annual payment of £10 to the Yicar, and £6 for Binding
out Apprentices.

* Aailey Hall is a large pile of wood, plaster, and brick, rebuilt in the year 1600, and
passed with Margaret, daughter and heiress of Bobert Chamook of Chamock and
Astiey, to Bichard Brooke Esq. second son of Sir Peter Brooke of Mere in the
county of Chester, in the latter part of the seyenteenth century. In the year 1787
Susanna^ daughter and henress of Peter Brooke Esq. married (1) Thomas Townlej
Parker Esq. by whom she had a son, Bobert Townley Parker, now of Cuerden, Boyle,
and Eztwisle^ all in this county, Esq. She married (2) Sir Henry Philip Hoghton
Bart, and by him, who died in the year 1885, had a son, the present Sir Henry Bold
Hoghton Bart.

^ Chorley Hall haying stood for many ages, was taken down in the year 1807-8,
and a lazge fortress-like edifice built by Thomas Qillibrand Esq. at a cost of £15,000,
and is now commonly called GHllibrand Hall, though formerly Lower Chorlsy Hall.

866 fijoUUA eeittdemto.

Vbai'^^amt* S^(S[ ^^ ^^ ^^ Almshouse^ built by Hugh Cooper Esq. (in 1682^)
j^n for 6 poor Widows^ who have 6^ p«[er] an.[num] charged
on lands^ to buy each of y™ a Gray Grown. W^ remaing goes
equally for fiiell among y™.

€fyscitM. Settled upon y« Poor, by [a] Decree of [the] Chanc.[ery Court
of] Lane, [aster, 19^ July 1654,] a messuage and Lands in Chorley,
oont.[aining] ab* 18 acres, let for la^-lO* p.[er] an.[num,] out of
w*** 51 p.[er] an.[num is] to be distrib.[uted] to [the] native Poor,
at Xtm's : the rest for hosen, shoes, shirts, &c. for y« Poor. [J6100,
left by the Will of Wm. Hodgson, dated 81st Oct. 1624, was thus
invested.] 80»p.[er] an.[num] given by Mr. [William] Mason,
in 1688, to [the] Poor of Chorley and Duxbury, equally, by Rent
Charge. 80^ given by Tho.[ma8] Sharrock; l(fi by sev.[eral]
other persons, [the] Int.[erest of which to be] distrib.[uted] at
Xtmas. y.[ide] Standish.

atJFireSt^r^,' Certif.[ied] 221. 18«.

OOd, viz. 201 paid by [the] Rect.[or]
of Croston; and li-14^*6^ paid also by y« Rect.[or,] being a
debenture formerly payable out of y« Dutchy Court, [and in 1588
said to be ^68. 28. 2d.] Int. [crest] of ff-lO", 8».6d; Surp.[lice]
fees, 10«.

Higher Chorley Hall, the residenoe of the ancient feudal Lords, was confisoated by
the attainder of Richard Chorley of Chorley Esq. who was executed at Preston in the
year 1716-16, and his Estate sold to Abraham Crompton of Derby Gl«nt. for £5,560.
It has since been purchased by Bobert Townley Parker Esq.; and the Hall was taken
down in the year 1817.

' CroM Hall, formerly the residenoe of the Cross family of layerpool, is now
diyided into cottages and workshops.

1 Dedicated to St. ICaiy. Value in 1884, £495. Begisters begin in 1670.

A, moiety of the Manor of Bufford was granted in the reign of Henry L by Baohard
Bussel, the second Baron of Penwortham, to Bichard Fitton ; and his descendant,
Matilda, daughter and coheiress of Bichard Fitton, married Sir William Heeketh in
the year 1276, and conyeyed her moiety of the Manor to his family. Sir John
Hesketh, grandson of Sir William, haying married Alice, daughter and heiress of

9eanrr5 nf %tslxiai. 367

An. [no] 1664^ upon y Petition and Representation of the In-
hab.[itantsj it was Ordered y* y« Rect.[or] of Croston sW pay y®
Corate 25^ P»[er] an. [nam J without Ded. [notion J as y« former
Possessours of y^ Tyths had done; and that from y^ time y®
Curacy became yoid^ if it was not filled in a months the Bp.
sh<^ put in a Curate.

1ft School was erected here an. [no] 1712, by Mr. Hesketh^ g^^aaU
Mr. Bellingham^ and other Inhab. [itants.] No settled
allowance only 10^ p.[er] an.[num] raised by Contrib.[ution8j 5^
of w«^ Mrs. Bellingham^ Widow, has bound herself to pay during
life; and Mr. Pilkington payes 1^ p*[er] an.[num] whilst he con-
tinues Bectour; the rest is raised by [the] Inhabitants. Only
4^ '10* was given by Mrs. Hesketh^ [the] Int.[erest of which is

Edmund Fitton, who held the other half of the Manor, the whole becftme Tested
in him. With the exception of one Estate belonging to the Church, the whole
Parish is an unbroken Manor, of which Sir Thomas Gt. Hesketh of Boiford Bart, is
the Lord.

A Chapel existed here before the reign of Edward HL as in the year 1846 that
King, when in Normandy, granted a license to Sir William Hesketh to found a
Chantry in the Chapel of St. Maiy of Bnfford.— JTarf. Bib. 2063, p. 186. This
Chantry was dissolved in the year 1648, restored in the year 1668, and suppressed by
Queen Elisabeth.

Bufford Chapel was returned in the year 1660 as three and three quarter miles and
twelye roods from the Mother Church, and fit to be separated from it and made a
distinct Parish, ''in respect that the Waters lying betwixt the Town of Bufford and
the Parish of Croston are for the most part all the Winter time not passable. Mr.
Woods, well qualified, and conformable to the State and Gk>Temment, doth officiate
the Cure, but hath no other Sallary saye the benerolenoe of his Auditoiy and the
Inhabitants there.'* — Fori, Inq, Lamb. lAbr, yoL ii.

In the year 1788 a Brief was obtained, and in 1784 the Chapel was rebuilt and
finished at a charge of £1,166 ; in the year 1798 the Chapelry was constituted a distinct
Parish, and endowed with the great and small Tithes of Bufford, and the great Tithes
of Ulnes Walton, the latter Township, however, still remaining part of the Parish of
Croston, and the small Tithes still being payable to the Beotor of that Parish : £20
per annum, payable to the Curate of Bufford by the Bector, to cease, and the fifth
part of an ancient pension of £46. 14s. 4d. payable to the Crown, to be defrayed by the
Beotor of Bufford, with power for him to hold by gift or dense, twenty acres of land, on
which to build a Beotory-house. The Adyowson was purchased about the year 1818,

368 ^^tftia eentrfemto*

paid] to [the] Master^ who is nominated by Mrs. Bellingham and
Mr. Filkington. The School is free only to Contribntora who live
iny« Village.

e^xtitm. M| ^ ^7 ^^^^ Savidge, W, now reduced to S^-IO", [the] Int.
f^S erest of w^ is paid to y** Curate^ [but] for w^ use is not
said.

augm* ^i aili.S0«K«^ This Chappell was

£. B.± W9 built by Mrs. Legh of Bank^ and Con-

TrL^'. oo'.Sioo secrated an. [no] 1720. Ded.[icated] to S^ James.

by the Trustees of Le Gendre Piers Starkie Esq. (who died on the 26th of October
1807,) of the Bev. Edward Master, the Patron and Bector, and was devised by the
Will (bearing date the 11th of April 1821,) of Le Gendre Starkie Esq. (who died s.p.
on the 28th of Febmary 1822^) to his brother, Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie of Hnnt-
royd Esq. the present Patron.

1 Dedicated to St. James. Value in 1884, £800. Begisters begin in 1719.

The Manor of Tarleton was held in the time of Bichard 11. by Alexander
Banastre ; and a moiety of it appears to hare passed with Margaret, daughter and
heiress of Thomas Banastre, in marriage to Thomas Hesketh Esq. Hying in the year
1887. The other moiety remained in the Banastres of Bank in Bretherton^ until the
death of Christopher Banastre Esq. when his daughter and coheiress Anne, bom in
the year 1664^ married Thomas Fleetwood Esq. and conyeyed it to her husband.
Hanna Maria, their daughter and heiress, married Thomas, second son of Biohard
Legh of Lyme Esq. who dying before the year 1728, left an only son, Fleetwood
Legh Esq. who died without male issue in the year 1726; and the Estate appears to
have passed to Peter Legh of Lyme Esq. whose second daughter and coheiress,
Elisabeth, married in the year 1766, Anthony James Keck of Stanghton Grange
in the county of Leicester Esq. M.P. and conyeyed Bank Hall to his fionily, which is
now in the possession of his son, Lieut. Colonel George Anthony Legh Keck M.P.
who, with Sir Thomas G. Hesketh, is the Joint Manerial Lord of Tarleton.

In the year 1718 Thomas Hesketh Esq. and Mrs. H. M. Leg^, the joint Manerial
owners, the Ber. Henry Leadbetter, Bector of Croston, and twenty-three of the
Freeholders of Tarleton, on behalf of themselyes and others, petitioned Bishop GastreO
for a License to erect a new Chapel in Tarlton, sixteen yards in length and seren
yards in breadth. They stated that during "the late unhappy Usurpation an edifice was
bult, by the preyailing Faction, in Tarlton and used for a pretended place of Worship,'*
which, at the Bestoration, had occasionally in it IHyine Serrice and Sermon according

9tmtts of lestotiB* 369

Certif.[ied] that nothing belongs to it. Bight of Nominating
y« Curate [is] vested by Act of Consecrat.pon] in Mrs. Legh^ and
her heirs, w*^ y« approbation of [the] Rect. [or] of Croston.

Here is one Chappell- warden.

Augmented w*'* 200^ given by Mr. Legh of Bank, and others,
an. [no] 1719.

Augmented again with 200^ left by Mrs. Barton, an. [no]
1728.

to the doctrine and dlBoipline of the Church of England j but the said building nerer
haying been consecrated, and haying no endowment, the Worship of G-od was neg-
lected, the Chapel gradually fell into decay and became a ruin, and the ground,
once ditched and set out for a Chapel-jard, lay waste and unfenced. The Petitioners
further stated that the population had increased, and that owing to their being four
miles from the Parish Church, and in Winter time by the oyerflowing of riyers, inun-
dations, and the shortness of the days, they were preyented attending Worship, and
some^ in consequence, 'had been led to diyide from the Church ; therefore, the Lord
and Lady of the Manor, to preyent such mischief and detriment to the Church for
the future, gaye the site of the old ruined Chapel on which to erect a new one, and
they, the principal and other Landowners, agreed to build it without any expense to
the Bector. To secure a permanent orthodox Incumbent, well and truly affected to
the Church of England, the Petitioners subscribed £200, in the hope of obtaining a
similar grant from the Bounty of Queen Anne ; and they consented that the Minister
should be nominated to the Chapel by the Bector of Croston for the time being, on
the recommendation of the Lords of the Manor of Tarleton, who should be adherents
and cordially affected to the Church of England, along with the majority of the prin-
cipal Inhabitants, who should also be similarly affected.

It appeared that shortly afterwards, some few persons in Tarleton seeing the Chapel
in great forwardness, and a large yard enclosed, and being desirous to recede from
their engagement, alleged that the Chapel was not built on the site originally in-
tended, and they objected to the altered site, as being less central, although it was
only one hundred rods from the place where the Presbyterian Chapel had stood. The
reasons which had induced the principal subscribers to alter the site were that in the
place where the Chapel was then in building there once stood a Chapel of great note
and antiquity, dedicated, according to tradition, to St. Helen : it was Parochial, as
appeared by the bones that had been dug up, especially on laying the foundation of
the new ChapeL The Baptistery near the Chapel was still called *' St. Helen's Well,*'
and, within the memory of man, had been yery much resorted to by the Deyotees of
those times, although the Chapel itself fell into decay about the beginning of the last
(seyenteenth) century. In addition to the antiquity of the site, it had the adyantage
of a dry and noble situation, haying a fine and pleasant prospect. It was more com-
modious for the inhabitants of Sollom and Bretherton, who would often be obliged

VOL. II.] 3 B

870 0jotitiA etnttimnin.

j^c^aal* ^^ tvt was a School built an. [no] 1706^ by Mr. Fleetwood^ of
^^S Bank^ and other Inhabi.[tants^] &ee only to 14 poor Chil-
dren of this TownsP, who pay 12^ apiece entrance. No settled
maintenance but 2^* 10* p.[er] an.[numj the Rent of a piece of
Land given by WiU.[iam] Johnson^ Yeoman.
There are nine Trustees, who nominate y« Master.

to repair thither when prerented hy water from going to their Farish Church. Fart of
the Fresbyterian Chapel-yard had been leased ont by Mr. Hesketh of BulFord, and the
remainder was too narrow for a Cemetry for so large a Chapelry, nor could a
secure title be made to it, as Madam Legh of Bank had an equal right to the yard,
and the Bufford Estate was then in Trust, and the heir appaient a minor. In fiivour
•of the old Chapel-yard it was contended that it admitted of no dispute, the whole
inheritance belonging to Madam Legh, who possessed her Estate in fee simple ; and
out of her Fiety not only restored to the Church what formerly belonged to it, but
out of her Generosity subscribed a yeiy considerable sum, gaye ten timber trees for
the Boof, and liberally promised such Utensils as would be necessary for Diyine Ser-
yioe, thereby not only promoting the erection, endowment, and ornament of the
Chapel, but also securing the donation of it to future ages. — Bishop Gastrell's MS8,
in the Megistry, Chetier.

Baines is singularly inexact in his account of this Church. He says ** the Fleet-
woods of Bank-hall, joint Lords of the Manor, erected Tarleton Chapel, now Tarleton
Church, in 1717, and on the 24th of July 1719 the edifice was consecrated and dedi-
cated to St. John.*' — History ofLancaMre^ yoL iii. p. 434. Bishop Gbistrell is wrong
.in the date, 1720, and Ecton in giying St. Mary as the Fatron Saint. A Chantry in
Tarleton Chapel was dissolyed in the year 1548. In the year 1650 the Farliamentaij
Inquisitors recommended the building of a new Church at the three Lane Ends in
Tarlton, at that lane end called the "Black (Hte Lane End, where a Chwrch is now
in building for the Inhabitants of Tarlton, Holmes, and ZoUom, which we present
needful to be made a Fansh Church. It wiU be aboye four miles from Croston, the
number of fieunilies will be eighty-seyen, and the congregation will amount to four
hundred and thirty-one persons." This was constituted a separate and distinct Farish
from Croston in the year 1821, and the Fatronage of the Bectory, formerly yested
in the Bey. Streynsham Master D.D. Bector of Croston, is now held by his son,
the Bey. B. M. Master M.A.

' Thomas Fleetwood of Bank Esq. was a public spirited and beneyolent indiyiduaL
He obtained a Charter from William III. in the year 1700, for an annual Fair for
Fedlary, to be held here on the 23d and 24th of April, and afterwards for two other
Fairs, on the 23d of September, and 23d of October, yearly; but they haye been
discontinued. He was the first improyer of Martin Mere. He died on the 22d of
April 1717, aged fifty^ix years, and had a marble monument, with a Latin inscrip-

9tamts of l^IanSi 871

CdlEftCdN,^ about 260i p.[er] an. [num.] ^ £. * a

An. [no] 1544^ [a] Bectour [was] presented by Pr.*A. oiis. 4

[the] E.[arl] of Derby. Insi.litution] jB.[oo*J 1, iff.V.oiia." s

p. 22. Fua S86

An.[no] I6OI9 Bichard Latham Esq. Patron. BJook] 2. i3&.'m"p.

_'--'' ^ L J * [about 80.]

p. 83.

tion, in Korth ICeola Church, erected to his memory by his relict, Letitift Fleet-
wood.

I Dedicated to St. Mary. Value in 1834, £965. Registers begin in 1603.

i^fter the defection of Boger de Poictou, Eccleston was divided between Albert de
Gbesley and Boger de Busli. Warin Bussel, the first Baron of Penwortham, gave
two carucates of land in Hoton and Eccleston with his daughter, in free marriage
to Hamo Fincema, whose son William was styled Lord of Eccleston, and hb son
Adam assumed the surname of Hoghton. The Southern part of the district fell to
the share of Albert de Gresley, who gaye a knight's fee in Dalton, Parbold, and
Wrightington, in marriage with his daughter to Orm, the son of Ailward. Heskin,
on the East of Eccleston, the King gave to Wimanus Qemet, whose descendant,
Benedict Garnet, held the Manor of Eccleston, which his grand-daughter Joan, con-
veyed in marriage, in the 58d Henry III. to William de Dacre, in whose family it
continued imtil the attainder of Sir Humphrey Dacre, Baron Dacre of Gillesland,
after the Battle of Towton, in the year 1461. The act of attainder was, however,
reversed ; but Edward lY. had previously granted a moiety of the Manor to Thomas
Molyneux Esq. which was sold by his descendant, Tiscount Molyneux, in the last
century, to James Longworth of Liverpool Esq. by whose heirs it is now possessed.
Edward lY. also granted the other moiety, and the Manor of Heskin, to Thomas
Walton of Walton Esq. These properties afterwards passed to the Wrightingtons of
Wrightington, and from them, in the seventeenth century, with Ann, daughter of
John Wrightington Esq. to her husband, Robert Dicconson of Brick House in
Eccleston Esq. whose grandson, William Dicconson of Wrightington Esq. was
attainted of High Treason in the time of William III. ; and in the Survey of his
Estates in the year 1707, are the Manors of Heskin and Eccleston. In the year 1838
his representative, Charles Dicconson of Wrightington Esq. on succeeding to the
Scarisbrick Estates assumed the surname of Scarisbrick.

A moiety of the Church of "Aycleton" was given by Boger de Poictou, along with
the Priory of Lancaster, to the Abbey of Sees, shortly after the Conquest ; and in
the year 1243, Warin de Walton and Sir Boger Gemet of Halton quit claimed
their right in the Advowson, which thus became vested in the Priory of Lancaster.

872 ifijotiHa Ctntrfomui*

Au.[no] 1628^ the King and Conrt of Wards presented Mr.
Richd Parr.a

An. [no] 1704^ [the] Bight of Patronage was^ upon a Jure
Patron.[at^,^ adjudged to Wil.[liam] Latham Gent, ag"^ Isab.
[ella] Crisp of Parbold, Widow. Reg.[i8t€r] jB.[ooA:J 4, p. 8.
CofDtul* 4. 2 Wardens ; 2 Assist, [ants ;] chosen Can. [onically.] One
Warden serves for Ecdeston and Heskin^ (w^^ is reckoned one
moyety of y* Par.[ish;]) the other for Wrightington and Parbold,
being y« other moyety.

At a yery early period it was a Chapel under Croston. — See Note, p. 854, by Dr.
DucareL It was yalned in the year 1291 at £12 per annum. 16th kaL June 1299,
Master William de Lancaster was presented to the Church of Eccleston by the Prior
and Convent of Lancaster. — Lib, 1/2 fol. 26, and 8 a, Seg, Langton in Cur, lAckf,
At the Dissolution, the Advowson passed to the Earl of Detby ; but was obtained
before the 9th Elizabeth, by Richard Latham of Parbold Esq. The Patronage was
once exercised by John Crisp of Gbay's Inn Esq. in the year 1671, which appears
to have raised a chum to the Adrowson in 1704. On the death of William Latham
Esq. about the year 1780, the Estate and Adyowson became yested in Thomas Crisp
Esq. M.P. for Ilchester, who had been Sheriff of Lancashire in the year 1716, and
who, before his death, in 1768, had sold the Adyowson. In the year 1812 William
Yates M.A, became Sector on the presentation of his father, William Yates Esq. of
Bury in this county, who had purchased the Liying of the Bey. Thomas Whitehead,
the Bector.

A Chantry existed in this Church in the year 1648.

In the year 1660 Mr. Edward 6^, ** an orthodox preaching Min'," had the Par>
Bonage-house and G-lebe, together with a water Com Mill, yalued at £80 per a-Tumtn^
and also the Tithes, which in 1648, had been taken by the Parliament from Dr. Parr.
Dr. Edward Gee was a Presbyterian Tory, and wrote in the year 1668 TKb Divine
Eighty and Original of Civil Magistrates, apparently in &your of Charles IL then
in exile. He had published a Treatise on Prater in the year 1668, and also two
Sermons.

' Richard Parr D.D. bom at Eccleston in the year 1692, entered of Brasenose Coll^
Oxon in 1609, elected Fellow in 1614^ appointed Bector of Ladbroke in the county of
Warwick in 1626, which he resigned on being instituted to the Bectory of Ecdeston
on February 6th 1628. In the year 1686 he was consecrated Bishop of the Isle of
Man, holding Eccleston in commendam. He was sequestered fr^m both by the Par-
liament in the year 1648, and died before the Bestoration. He published seyeral
Sermons, — all yery scarce. His nephew, Edward Parr of Wood in Eccleston €(ent.
married Margaret, daughter of Edward, and grand-daughter of Biohard Bobinson of
Euxton Gknt. and of his wife Margaret, daughter of Mr. Adam Holland of Newton in
Manchester, a yery near connexion of Humphrey Chetham of Turton Esq.

Seamts of lesIanD. 373

Ancient Seats : Wrightington Hall,s Old and New Hall/ Brad- BolU*
ley,* Parbold,^ Harrock,^ Fairhurst.®

|ere is a Gram, [mar] School^ at Heskin in this Par.[i8liJ ^rsmmxr
Pounded an. [no] 1597, by S' Jam.[e8] Pemberton, Gold- *^"^^
smith, L^ Mayor of Lond.[on,] by vertue of Lett.[er8] Pat.[ent]
firom Q.[aeen] Eliz.[abeth,] to be free to [the] Inhab.[itants] of
this or any other adjoining Par.[ish.] He endowed it by Will w*^
50^ p*[er] an.[nnm,] for Master and Usher, payable out of all his
Lands; but his Widow and Exec.[utor8] having, w* [the] con-
sent of y« then Gover.[nors,] fixt this sum as a rent Charge upon
Houses in Lond.[on,] w^ were burnt an. [no] 1666, this annuity
was, by a Decree of y« Court for rebuilding y« City, sunk to 30^
p.[er] an.[num] for 61 years, after w«^ y« 5tf p.[er] an.[num] is
to revive, and continue ; out of w*'* summe (by Order of y« first

> Wrightington Hall is a handaome Btructnre of stone, witli two small wings. On
t<he West of the house are the remains of a wood and plaster huilding, formed in yel-
low and black compartments. The arms of Wrightington and Dicconson are on a
shield oyer the door ; and the principal part of the mansion was built in the early
part of the last century. The Park abounds with Deer, and is admired for its pic-
turesque scenery.

* Old Hall, in Heskin, has been removed, and a finrm-house occupies its site.
Heskin New Hall is a large brick gabled edifice, which was purchased by Bobert

Mawdesley of Mawdesley Esq. of Sir Bichard Molyneux Bart, in the 2d Charles I.
1627. The Manor of Heskin was purchased by a Decree of Chancery in the year
1789, by Alexander Kershaw Esq. who died in the year 1788, aged ninety-two years. —
See p. 859-360, Note 8. The property is now vested in Trustees for the benefit of
a Minor.

* Bradley Hall is the ancient Manor-house, and remained in the Molyneux family
firom the fifteenth century until it passed to the Bev. Adam Bigby, Bector of Ecoles-
ton, who devised it to his nephew, Alexander Bigby Esq. and is now the property of
Miss Fletcher, sister of the late G^eral John Bigbye Fletcher. It is used as a £urm-
house.

' Farbold was held by Bichard de Lathom in the time of King John ; and his
great-grandson, Edward Lathom, is styled '< of Farbold," in the 89th Edward III.
In the 9th Elizabeth, the Manor was held by Bichard Lathom Esq. and continued in
his fiumly until the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the Hall, a spacious
edifice of free stone, was built.

7 Harrock Hall is an ancient gabled mansion of stone, and was in the Bigbye

874 ifijotUiA etntvitmifi*

Govemours^ as is supposed^) 40 marks is to be y^ Master's Salary,
and 20 marks y« Usher's, and y residue is to goe to [the] Repairs
of y« School, and for a Sermon and Dinner for [the] Gov", Mas-
ters, and Scholars, every S^ James' Day.

There are 12 Gov™, who are to Elect [the] Master and Usher
and other Gov.[ernors,] npon a vacancy, w*^in 2 months; and if
they make not a due Election in that time, it then belongs to
[the] Prindp^ and Scholars of Brazenose to Elect ; and upon their
neglect, to y« Wardens and Commonalty of y* Comp.[any] of
Goldsmiths in Lond.[on.]

The Com.[mon] Seal, Founder's Will, and other Writings, are
kept in a Chest w^ 3 locks, in y« School.

An. [no] 1685, Mrs. Eliz.[abeth] Cooper [of Chorley, Widow,]
gave 50^, [the] Int.[erest] for teaching Poor Children English,
and instructing them in the knowledge of God and the principles
of the Reformed Religion, and buying them Books, partic. [ularly]
Bibles.

fiunilj anterior to the fifteenth century. The family continued in the male line until
the death of Thomas Bigbye Esq. who, by Will dated the 18th of October 1775, and
proved at Chester on the 11th of February 1779, devised Harrock Hall and his shares
of the Manor of Wrightington, and other large Estates, to his sister, Eleanor Bigbye,
for her life, with remainder to hb nephew, the Bev. John Baldwin M.A. Bector of
North Meols, who, in compliance with his uncle's Will, obtained the Boyal License
to assume the surname and arms of Bigbye ; and on his death, the Estates descended,
according to the Will of Thomas Bigbye Esq. to the Bev. Bigbye Baldwin, MJL
third son of the Bev. John (Baldwin) Bigbye, who, in the year 1796, also obtained
the Boyal License to use the name and arms of Bigbye only. On his death in the
year 1829, he was succeeded by his son. Captain Bigbye Baldwin Bigbye. Baines's
acooimt of the latter descents of this family is very inaccurate. — Vol. iii. p. 481.

* Fairhurst is a brick house of some antiquity, and has been for several generations
in the family of the Nelsons.

> On the 20th of February, and 12th of March 1667-8, Mary Barnard, widow and
Executrix of William Barnard Esq. and her five daughters, were the Petitioners, and
Sir Boger Bradshaigh, and the G-ovemors of the Grammar School of Sir James Fern-
berton, deceased, in Ecdeston, and Isaac Foster Esq. and others, were the Defend-
ants, in the Court of Judicature, for settling the disputes arising in respect of pro-
perty destroyed in the Fire of London in 1666. The Petitioners set forth that the
said William Barnard being seized of four messuages, demised by Indentures of tho
14th of November in the 8d Charles I. to Edward Ghreene of London Gent, two mes-

litmtTs of l^esIatiD* 375

tft by Adam Rigby, [the] Eect.[orJ 2tf p.[er] an.[nu]n] CfparttM.

for 100 years^ being a Rent Charge upon Lands in Eccles-
ton and Euxton ; w«^ gift was confirmed for ever by Alex, [ander]
Rigby Esq.^^ an. [no] 1639, and is to be laid out yearly in Bread,
Grey Coats, and Gowns, and in such manner as is by y^ s<^ Rigbys
directed.

Left by H.[ugh] Dickenson, (in 1683,) 50^, [the] Int.[erest] for
Buying six blue Coats for six poor persons yearly, to be lettered
with H. D. on the sleeves. By Rich.[ard] Fleetwood Esq. 13»-4^
p.[er] an.[num,] out of Houses in Fleet Street. By Henry Char-
nock, taylour, 20 marks to [the] poor of Eccleston and Heskin.

i&1li^%^Sb^ This Chap, [el] is placed
at y« extremity of y« Parish, and seems
to have been erected chiefly for y« conveniency of y« adjoining
Parishes, viz. Wigan and Ormskirk, the Congreg.[ation] consist-
ing mostly of [the] Inhab. [itants] of those Parishes.

suages called tlie "Moor's Head," in Foster Lane, in the Parish of St. Michael in the
Queme ; and the said William Barnard, in the year 1654, demised one messuage in
Cheapside in the Parish of St. Matthew, Friday Street, called "the Swan,*' to one Clay;
and haying made his Will, derised the premifles to the Petitioner, Maiy Barnard, for
life, with remainder to Francis Barnard, his only son, (who is since dead, without
issue,) and the rerersion to the said daughters. That the said Mary Bamajrd, the
widow, by Indenture dated the 18th of December 1660, demised to Daniel Maddocks
the other messuage called the ** G-olden Unicom," in Cheapside, in the Parish of St.
Matthew, formerly belonging to a Chantry in St. Paul's, London, and held by Lease
for two hundred years, the reversion being in the heirs of Sir Martin Bowes. The
Goyemors of the School claimed an annuity of £50, charged on the two houses in
Foster Lane, on one of the houses in Cheapside, and on certain lands in Essex. — Add,
MS8. 5070, No. 42, BriHsh Museum,

^ Colonel Alexander Bigby M.P. was nephew and heir of Mr. Adam Bigby, who
was Bector of Eodeston from the year 1601 to 1627. The Bector died unmarried,
being the third son of John Bigby of Middleton Esq. and his wife Joanna^ daughter
of €KIbert Molyneux of Hawkley Esq.

> Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834, £184. Begistem begin in 1818.

A very considerable portion of the Township of Parbold was bought of the Crisp

376

llotttta etnttiVMi$^

Certif.[ied] lOLOO-OO^, viz. 2^ lelElt by Mr. Duming of Bisp-
ham; 7^-10", [the] Int.[erest] of 15tf given by sever. [al] persons,
at sev.[eral] times; Surp.jTice] fees, 10*.

There is 20* p. [er] an. [num] more, left during y« Life of Bich.
[ard] Hawett, who is above 70.

4 m.[iles] from Eccleston; [and] 3 m.[iles] from [the] next
Ch.[urch.]

It is supplyed by [the] Rect.[or] of Eccleston, or his Curate,
every Sunday, except w^^ the Sacram^ is administered at y^ Mother
Church.

£. 8. d.
T. ... 0.13.041
Proc. 0. 2.

Fsm. 72

78

Pap 9

01. S«^ St. Michael^s infra Much Hoole, a
Chappell built by Mr. [John] Stones, [of Carr House,
near Hoole,] Citizen of London, and other Inhab.
[itants] of Much Hoole and Little Hoole, upon ground
given by S' Pet.[er] Legh and S' Tho.[mas] Bartron, and en-
dowed by y* s^ Mr. Stones w*^ 40^ P«[cr] an.[num,] was Conse-

fiimilj about the year 1791, for the sum of £34,260. 15b. 9d. under the authority of
an Act of Parliament granted to William Dicconson of Wrightington Esq. and
Meliora (Stanley) his wife, and Edward Dicconson Esq. their son and heir apparent,
whereby they were enabled to sell the Manors of Stainton and Banby in the county
of Lincoln, and Estates in yarious parishes of Lancashire, and to inrest parts of the
produce of the sale in the purchase of Parbold, which has descended to their repre-
sentative, Charles Scarisbrick Esq. — Lane. MSS, vol. xxxi. p. 465.

This Chapel is situated in the Township of Parbold, and was built by subscription,
in the seventeenth century. — ^Baines*s Sist. of Lane, toL iii. p. 479. It was probably
then rebuilt, as it existed in the year 1577, and is noticed in Saxton*s Map of the
County. In the year 1650 there was a donation of £200 in the hands of Andrew
Whittle of Wrightington for the use of a Preaching Minister here; and also £5 given
by John Towgood of Wrightington, deceased, the interest of which was then received
by Mr. William Brownswood the Curate. — P<xrl, Inq, Xiomb, Libr, voL ii. Mr.
Jonathan Scholfield was the ejected Minister of this Chapel in the year 1662.

The Sector of Eccleston is the Patron.

^ Dedicated to St. Michael. Holy Trinity, (Sctan.) Value in 1834, £176. Regis-
ters begin in 1673.

9tamts of leslanS* 377

crated w*** Par. [ochial] privileges by B. [ishop] Bridgman an. [no]
1629, for y« use of [the] Inliab.[itant8] of Much Hoole, Little
Hoole, and Brotherton, w* reserve of 2» p.[er] an.[num] Proc.
[uration] to [the] Bp. and [the] Bight of Nom. [inating] y« Curate
to Mr. Stones, w** Act of Con8ecr.[ation] was drawn up by [the]
Advice of D» of Law. Reg. [ister,'] p. 415.

Much Hoole and Little Hoole, w^^ are in proportion to a quar- VofDtut, 2.
ter as 38 is to 18.

This was made a distinct Parish from Croston, out of w<^ it was
taken, by Act of Pari, [lament,] an. [no] 1641, an Agreement being
made w**» y« Rect.[or,] and y« Bight of Patronage confirmed to
Mr. Stones and his Heirs. V. [ide] Act in New Reg. [ister.']

Certif.[ied] 46i.03-.00d, viz. Tyth Com, 5»; Tith Hay, Easter
Dues, and Small Tyths, 8^ . 10" ; Mortuaryes and Surp. [Uce] fees,
l^-S**. Ded.[uct] Pens, [ion] for y« Schoolmaster of Hoole, 10^;
fee farm rent to y« Crown, ©.12*.0d.

[A] Bector [was] presented an. [no] 1660, by Maria Porter,
widow of Bich.[ard] Porter of Lamberhurst in Kent Esq.

An. [no] 1686, King James presented by Lapse.

[Anno] 1701, S' Tho.[mas] Wheate presented.

ThonuM Banastre held the Manor of Qretii Hoole in the early port of the reign of
Heniy m. and hiB Estate passed before the year 1387, with Margaret, daughter and
heiress of Thomas Banastre, to her husband, Thomas Hesketh of Bufford, whose
descendant, Sir Thomas G-. Hesketh, G-. A. Legh Keck Esq. and others, are the prin-
cipal landowners in Much Hoole; but no Manerial rights now exist, nor are any
Courts held. The Lord of the Manor of Little Hoole (which Manor Boger de Mont-
b^on granted to the Priory of Thetford,) is Bice George Fellowee of Edmonton
in the county of Middlesex Esq. who is, or lately was, the only landowner ui the
Township, and by whom a Court Baron is yearly held.

The Church was erected in the fifteenth century as a Chapel of Ease to Croston,
(Baines's MiH. of Lome. voL iiL p. 411,) and re-edified in the year 1628. The Font
was presented in the year 1683 by John Stones Esq. and the Communion Plate by
his &mjly. On the 27th of July, in the 17th Charles L (1642,) [16th Charles L Dr.
Buoarel,] the Boyal Seal was attached to the Act which separated this Chapelry firom
the Mother Church, and rendered it an independent Parish. In the year 1650 the
Parliamentary Inquisitors reported that Hoole, about ten years ago, had been made a
separate Parish by Act of Parliament, ¥rith the consent of Mr. Hyett, Bector of
Croston, who received for his consent £400 from Mr. Thomas Stones and Mr. Andrew
VOL. II. J 3 C

878 fiatitUi etntvitmin.

[The] present Beet, [or] (1724,) [was] presented an. [no] 1703,
by Eliz. [abeth] Hamby, widow. Mrs. Hamby, and Mr. Crook of
Abram, [are] Patrons by Turns.

[There are] 2 Churchw. [ardens,] chosen accord, [ing] to [the]
89^ Canon : one serves for Much Hoole, and the other for Little
Hoole, 4 years tog'; and in every 5* year there are two in Much
Hoole, and none in Little Hoole.

Assessments are made in Much Hoole by the Acre, and in
Little Hoole by a Fifteen.
Bxn. There is no ancient Seat, Hall, or Grange.

§ftfyoaL ^^l 9^^ ^s ^ School here endowed w^ 10^ P*[6i*] an.[num,]3 to
y^B be paid by y^ Beet, [or,] as appears by his Certificate of y«
value of his Living recorded in [the] Exchequer an. [no] 1708, and
by 8ev.[eral] Witnesses now living, an. [no] 1722; but how, or by
whom it was settled, I cannot yet learn.

Certif . [icate] of y« same Bectour, [Mr. James Whitaker,] an.
[no] 1725, y* there is no Free School or any other School w^in
y« Parish.

Cfioritifif. WSi ^^ *^ y* Poor, 10^, [by Edward Stananought,] but not yet
Wm settled, 1718; &, given in 1709 by [the] WiU of Balph

Stones. The Tithes in Much Hoole and Little Hoole were valued at £60 a year, but
had been alienated by Mr. Hyett. Mr. Samuel Jones, a godly preaching Minister,
receiyed the Tithes of Much Hoole for his Salary. — Pari. Inq, Lamb, Libr, toL iL

In the year 1720 the Tower was raised upon four stone piUars, and is singularly
ornamented with rases or flower-pots. The Chancel was added in the year 1824 ;
and the Naye is without Aisles.

On being constituted a distinct Parish, the Patronage was ceded by the Bector of
Croston to Mr. Stones ; and has since been possessed by yarious indiyiduals. Baines
states that Elizabeth Hanby presented Mr. James Whitaker to the Bectory in the
year 1709, (in the text 1708 ;) and before 1783, the Adyowson was purchased by Mr.
Miles Barton of North Meols, whose grandson, the Bey. Miles Barton, was lately the
Incumbent and Patron. The present Patron is the Bey. E. H. Sewell, Yioar of
Cookerham.

' It appears by the Parliamentary Inquisition taken in the year 1650, that £10 per
annum was giyen by Mr. Stones, the Patron of Hoole, to a School in Much Hoole. —
ParL Inq. Lamb, lAJbr, yoL ii

S^aners of l^IaiiB* 379

Leyland of Little Hoole^ [the] Int.[erest] to be laid out in Com-
mon Prayer Books for Poor Children.

1

- V

SaaON*,! about VXfi p.[er] an.[num,] viz. 8maUF....n.w.w

Tyths^ Ea8t.[er] Dues and Surp.[lice] fees^ near 60^ Fsm

p.[er] an.[num;] besides w^^ there is an Estate of ^

about 40^ p<[er] an.[numj called Leyland Hall^ given Pr.AiLo'.i3. 4
to it by y« Crown, Dec. 11, 1690. This Estate was given an. [no] ttl.T. o!i2.' 8
1660, by Ilob.[ert] Chamock, in Trust, for the maintenance of
Secular Priests in Lancashire, and soe it was found by a Jury at
Lane, [aster] Assizes an. [no] 1686, upon w^ Verdict y« Lands
were Decreed by [the] Court of Exchequer to be forfeited to the
Crown; and K.[ing] W,[illiam] and Q.[ueen] M.[ary] afterwards
Granted the premises, in Trust, to y® Yic.[ar] of Lealand and his
successours, for ever; w^^ Decree being Disputed, and a Bill of
Review brought, was again Affirmed in [the] Exch', and after that,
upon an Appeal to [the] House of Lords, affirmed there also,
Nov. 26 an. [no] 1690.

1 Dedicated to St. Andrew. Value in 1834, £400, Begisten begin in 1538.

Edward the Confessor held the Manor and Hundred of Leyland, which was granted
by Boger de Poictou, after the Conquest, to Warin Bussel of Fenwortham, in whose
descendants they continued until the time of King John, when the Barony of Fen-
wortham, and a moiety of the Manor of Leyland, became vested in Boger de Lacy.
The other moiety was given in the 14th Henry III. 1230, in marriage with Ayici%
daughter of Bobert Buasel, to John de Farington, son of William de Meles, Coroder
of the Church of Leyland, and in the 22d Biohard II. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lan-
caster, and William de Farington held the Manor in moieties. In the 21st Edward
IV . the King granted to Thomas Molyneux of Sefton, the half of the Manor of Ley-
hmd, which he possessed probably as Lessee for a short period only, as the same King
conveyed this moiety for a term of years, to Thomas Walton Esq. Attorney General
of the County Falatine of Chester, which he held in the 1st Henry Vll. On the
death of William Farington in the 17th Henry YII. it is recorded that he held
the Manor of Leyland by knight's service, from which it might appear that the
Crown had granted this moiety to the Lord of the other moiety. No Court is now
held for the Manor of Leyland, and its existence as a Manor, in the ordinary accep-
tation of the term, has been singularly enough questioned.

380 Hotitia etnMtnMf^

Leyland; this Church was given to y« Monast. [ery] of Pen-
wortham by y« Founder of that Mon.[astery.] V.[ide] Duff.
[dale,] V. 1, p. 860.

An. [no] 12 £liz.[abeth^ the] Yicar [was] presented by John
Fleetwood Esq. Inst.[ittUion] B,[ook,'] 1, Pap. Reg. p. 2.

[The] present Patron [is] Mr. Fleetwood of Penwortham^ by
whom^ (as it is believed^) the Clerk also is put in.
CoiDtur. [The] Parish is divided into 4 quarters, viz. Leyland, Euxton,
Whittle, Clayton, and Cuerden, and y« Moor Quarter, for w<*

Warin Buseel, Baron of Fenwortham, gave Iub right in the Churcli of Leyland, the
Church of Penwortham, and the Chapel of Meols, with their appurtenances, to the
Church of Eyesham ; and the entire Adyowson of Leyland was conferred on the same
Ahbey by Bichard Bussel, his son. Li the year 1291 the Church of Laylond was
yalued at £10. On the 18th kaL of Febr. 1303, Mr. William de Crineboys was
instituted by the Bishop to the Church of Leylande, on the presentation of the
Abbot and Conyent of Eyesham. — Lib^ 1/2 fol. 9 b, Se^. LangUm in Our, lAchf,

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Adyowson was conyeyed by the Crown
to John Fleetwood of Penwortham Esq. in whose descendants it remained yested
until the year 1748, when it was purchased by the Bey. Thomas Baldwin, the Yicar,
and is now held by his representatiye, the Bey. Ghurdner Baldwin, the Incumbent.

The Church consists of an ancient Tower, a Naye, Aisles, Chancel, and a Chapel
belonging to the ffaringtons of Worden and Shaw Hall, confirmed to William Far*
ington Esq. by Bishop Chadderton in the year 1591. The arms of the family are
well painted in the windows. A Chantry was founded in Leyland Church in the 15th
Henry Vlll. by James Anderton of Euxton Esq. The Arch which separates the
Naye from the Chancel is of the time of Edward II. In the year 1816 the greater
part of the Church was rebuilt.

In the year 1650 there was one mansion-house belonging to the Vicarage, with
other buildings, and glebe amounting to twelye acres, worth £6 per annum. The
small Tithes of the Vicarage were yalued at £5 per annum. The impropriate Tithes,
worth £271 a year, were claimed by seyeral persons. There was no Incumbent, Mr.
James Langley being lately dead, {Pari, Inq, Jxtmb, Libr, yol. ii.) and Mr. William
Bothwell M.A. the Vicar, not being allowed by the Puritans to officiate. He had
been yiolently dragged out of his Church, and persecuted from place to place, and
would haye staryed had it not been for the liberality of Mr. Daniel of Daresbury,
(mis-spelt Densberry, by Walker,) in Cheshire. He suryiyed the Bestoration, was
restored to his Liying, and died here in the year 1677. — Walker's StffenngM ofihs
Clergy^ p. 344.

In the year 1650 the Parliamentary Commissioners stated that the Tithe Com of
Cuerden was worth £18 a year, which Mr. Peter Bursoough, lately deceased, claimed
as his own inheritance, and left one part thereof to the Poor of Cuerden, another

9tmns of l^UttA* 881

there are 4 Churchwardens. The Yic.[ar] chooses one out of 8
named to him by Leyland : the other 8 Quarters choose each of
y™ one.

Ancient Seats : Worden,^ Euxton/ Clayton,* Cuerden,* Crook WtfM*
Hall,fi and Hoghton Tower.7

ere is a Free Gram, [mar] School, Founded by Q.[ueen] ^rsmmmr
Eliz.[abeth,] and endowed by her w«* 8i.6».8d p.[er] an. ***"^
[num,] payable out of y« Dutchy Bents ; to v/^ hath been given
since 100^ by Mr. Dandy; 50^ by Jam.[es] Sherdley; by Mr.
Walsh, Curate of Leverpool, Itf, [the] Int.[erest] of w«^ to [be
paid to the] Master, who is Nominated by Trustees, appointed
accord, [ing] to a Decree in Chancery, who keep y* Writings.
1717. [The Rev. Thomas Armetriding, Vicar, by Will dated the

part to the children of Richard Woodooke, and the rest was eequestered at the time
of the Inquisition, owing to the delinquency of Christopher Banastre and the heirs of
Thomas Osbaldeston. — Fctrl, Inq. Lanib, lAbr, toI. iL
^^ s Worden or Wearden HaU, the ancient seat of the Faringtons descended from
John de Farington, son of William de Meolis, and grandson of Hngh de Meolis
living at the Conquest. The fiunily continued in Leyland in uninterrupted male
succession for twenty-fiye generations, imtil the death of James I^oweU ffarington
Esq. in the year 1848, whose ancestor, Sir Thomas Farington, appears to have quitted
Worden for Shaw HaU about the time of James I. and whose great unde, Sir
William Farington, enhirged the house and made it the depository of the marbles,
busts, and frescoes which he brought from Italy in the last century. Some remains
of Worden HaU indicate its former respectabiUty, and some of the offices stiU retain
the fismiily arms carved on the projecting oak beams. Farington HaU in Penwor-
tham existed before the year 1500; and much of the Township of Farington de-
scended in the male line from the time of Bdward m. to the late Mr. ffiurington of
Worden.

> Euxton HaU was buUt about the time of Henry Vill. by James Anderton Esq.
and rebuilt by WiUiam Anderton Esq. in the year 1789, and is now in the possession
of his grandson, WOliam Ince Anderton Esq. It appears fr^m the Marcmimt
PoUUous of August 16th 1660, that Charles 11. visited this house on the 14th of
August, although Sir Hugh Anderton, the owner, **a bloody Papist," was then a
prisoner at Ijancaster ; and if the report of his proceedings at the si^ge of Bolton be
correct, the BepnbUoan epithet was weU bestowed, and his imprisonment not un-
merited.
* Clayton HaU is a large mansion of the age of Queen Elizabeth. A moiety of the

882 fifititUL etmxkMin.

18th of February 1718, proved at Chester in 1719, gave £200 for
the Master, and £60 for the Usher; and Margaret, his widow,
by Will dated the 16th of Noyember 1728, gave £60 for the
Usher. The] Int.[ere8t] of 20* [was] given lately for an Usher
by John Bury of Lealaud.

An. [no] 22, Jac. 1. [An] Inquis.[ition was held] ab^ money

given to this School. MS, Hulm. 78, a. 16.

CRHftt^nell Here is a School lately erected, and said to be endowed by S'

9C9001. Char.[les] Houghton deceased; but how endowed y« Vicar cannot

yet learn. An. [no] 1718. [Endowed by Deed dated the 80th of

June 1709, with £400.]

[A] Master [was] Licensed an. [no] 1714. Y.[ide] Sttbs.[cr^
tioTh] JB. [oo*.]

Manor of Clayton was giyen by Richard BuBsel, second Baron of Penwortliain, in the
reign of William Bufua, with a sister, in marriage to Robert de Hickling of HicUing
in the county of I^otts. Their son Bobert, on inheriting his mother's Estate^
assumed the name of Clayton ; and his descendants sold their share of the Manor to
the Andertons of Enxton. On the death of Hugh Anderton in the year 1562, Clayton
passed to his son, James Anderton Esq. whose descendants, Christopher and William,
about the year 1672, sold it to Caryl, third Viscount Molyneux, from whose fimily
it passed to the present owner, the Lord Skelmersdale. The second Baron of Pen-
wortham gare the other moiety of the Manor of Clayton to Bichard fytton, which
was conyeyed by marriage to Sir Henry de Lee, and by Sibil, sister and heiress of
Henry de Lee, it passed to Sir Bichard Hoghton Knt. in whose representatiye it
still remains.

* Cuerden was held by Bobert Banastre, Baron of Newton and Lord of Walton,
in the latter part of the reign of Henry III. and passed with Elizabeth, daughter
and coheiress of Christopher Banastre of Bank Esq. to Captain Bobert Parker of
Extwisle, who died in the year 1718, and is now the residence of his deacendant^
Bobert Townley Parker Esq.

' Crook Hall is described by Dr. Xuorden as *' a fayr fabrick of stone called the
New Croke, erected by Bichard Clayton D.D. and Master of St. John's College,
Cambridge, who purchased the Estate in Whittle called the New and Old Croke^
where the family of Claytons were planted for some generations." It passed with a
female, to the Leycesters of Toft in Cheshire. Old Crook was sold by Captain Bobert
Clayton of Fulwood to Mr. William Croke in the seventeenth century.

7 Hoghton was held in the time of Henry EL by Adam de Hocton, son of Bichard
Fitz Hamo, and grandson of Hamo Pincoma, who married the daughter of Warin
Bussel, Baron of Penwortham, shortly after the Conquest, the direct ancestors of the
present owner, Sir Henry Bold Hoghton Bart.

9tmns ^f l^UuiS* 888

ttt are six Alms-houses^ built an. [no] 1661 by Will.[iam] nmi'^atiiti^
Fariugton,® and by him endowed w*** 6^ P«[er] an.[num]
tow.[ards] y^ maintenance of^ as also [for] fueU^ and ev.[ery]
third year new Gtowns [to be] given to y« Poor.

[The Eev. Thomas Armetriding in 1718 gave £100^ and his
widow afterwards gave £60 to these Alms-houses.]

An. [no] 1665, [left] by Mr. John Osbaldeston [of Strand on CftwttW.
the Green in the Parish of ChiswickJ 500^, to be laid out in Lands,
w*^ is done accordy for y« Poor of Whittle in le Woods ; 8* p.[er]
an.[num] out of y« Tyths of Whittle, by Pet.[er] Burscough an.
[no] 1623, (to y« Poor of Cuerden;) 5i.6>.8d p.[er] an.[num] out
of y« Tyths of Cuerden, by y« s<* Mr. Burscough.

By Mary Langton, part of 100^, an. [no] 1625. V.[ide]
Standish.

The Tower was built bj Sir Thonuis Hoghton, in the reign of Queen Elisabeth,
who remoyed the ancient Manor-honBe^ formerly placed below the hill, near the water
side, to its present elevated site. The tower or gate-house, which was yeiy high, was
accidentally blown np with gunpowder in the year 1642, after which time the family
chiefly resided at Walton Hall, on the banks of the Barwen near its confluence with
the Bibble, until that house was taken down. This stately baronial residence, with a
domestic Chapel on the North side of the inner court, is now a ruin. Some of the
ancient furniture and pictures yet remain. King James L yisited Sir Bichard
Hoghton at this house in the year 1617, and spent three days here in the midst of
splendid festiyities, and surrounded by the magnificent scenery of the once Boyal
Manor of Leyland :

*'How changed, since these fetr times, the scene!"

8 William Farington of Worden Esq. was probably the founder, who was a Major
of Foot, under James, Earl of Derby, and a zealous supporter of the Countess of
Derby in her defence of Lathom against the rebels in the year 1644. He was bom
on the 20th of September 1618, and liying in the year 1664. — Dugdale's VitUaUon,
The date of the foimdation was unknown to the Charity Commissioners in the year
1826, who state that there is <*WilL Farington, Worden, 1607," upon the Alms-
house, but that no records exist. This date had probably existed upon a former
building, but is erroneously giyen by Baines as the preoiBe date of the foundation,
(yoL iii p. 449,) which is, howeyer, correctly preseryed in the text.

884 ilirtttia etmimm.

KtJCJTdN,* Certif.[ied] y* nothing
belongs to it. This Chap^ has been
ruinated about 20 years, since w^^ [time] no Service hath been
performed in it. Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1717.

Euxton and Heapy are said to be two old Chap* without
Curates, Brief 0bserv.[atian8,'] an. [no] 1704, v. [ide] MS.

Divine Service [was] performed here ab* 1705. V.[ide] Pap.
Reg.

'Tib now repaired, but no Seats or Pulpit yet in it. Cert\f. \ied]
by [tte] Vic.\ar,'\ an. [no] 1724.

1 Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £125. Begiflten begin in 1774. No
Marriages.

The Manor of Euxton passed through the Bussels and Hollands, and was con-
veyed in marriage by Joan, daughter and coheiress of Sir Robert Holland and of his
wife Margery, daughter of Sir Alan Heton, to Sir William Molyneux, who died at
Canterbury on his return from France in the year 1872, and remained in his funily
until it was sold by the Viscount Molyneux to James Longworth of Liyerpool Esq.

Kuerden says, '* Euxton is two statute miles from its Parish Church of Leyland,
and hath a layre Chappel built by Sir W. Molineux of Sephton, Lord of the Manor
of Euxton." On a stone in the South wall of the Chapel is the date 1518. This was
probably the Sir William Molyneux who distinguished himself at flodden Field.

In the 15th Henry Viil. James Anderton of Euxton Esq. founded a Chantry in
the Chapel of Euxton, for a Priest to pray for the souls of himself and Agnes his
wife. In the year 1650 the Chapel was said to be two and a half miles from Lealand
Church. The Tithes, estimated at £55 per annum, were claimed by Mr. James
Anderton of Clayton as his inheritance; but were then sequestered for the use of
the State owing to his delinquency. The small Tithes were worth £2. 5s. per aunum,
and belonged to the Vicar of Leyland. Mr. Seth BusheU was the Incumbent, ''a
godly pious Minister, and conformable to the present GK>yemment, and came into the
said place by an Order from the Committee of Plundered Ministers, and hath for his
Salary £40 per annum." — ParL Inq. Lamb, lAbr.

** 1687. Mr. Walmsley of Leiand came to yisit me, and he deliy^ me a Petition for
y* restoring of Euxton Chapel to the Inhab**, the key whereof was in the hands of

Molineux, who alledges that it is his and not theirs, that it has no maintenance,

nor any prayers said in it for 20 years last past." — Bishop Cartwright's l^tory,
p. 28.

Batnee states that the Chapel was rebuilt about a.d. 1710 ; but the year would
be 1724. It was again rebuilt in the year 1816, enlarged by the Incorporated
Society for Building Churches in 1829 ; and a Chancel has since been added. The

Seanefs of l^IamS. 385

20tf [ifi] left by Mr. Armetriding^^ late Vicar, after y« death of
his wife^ for Augment, [ing] this Chap, [el J tog. [ether] w^ y«
Queen^s Bounty, who is now lining, an. [no] 1724. [She died in
1780.]

flim to y« Poor by Bich. [ardj Hodson, yeo. [man J 40^, an. €fyaitM.

[no] 1700, w^ is since laid out in Lands in Lealaud.
[Bichard Hoghton of Euxton gave, in 1686, by Deed, £1. lOs. a
year, to be laid out in Cloth for the Poor.]

Font appears to be aiioienti and in the Konnan style. The remnant of a stone Cross,
of some antiquity, formerly in the Chapel, lies n^lected outside the gate of the
Ghapel-yard, and is used by the Boman Catholics at their funerals as a station.

The representatiyes of the Ber. J. ibmetriding present to the LiTing.

In the year 1725 certain Ph>posa]s were submitted to Bishop Gbstrell by the Bev.
W. SndeU, Yioar of Leyland, relating to **the future management of the Chapels of
Buxton and Heapy." He proposed that the Curates should be nominated according
to the words of the last 'WHl of the Ber. Thomas Armetriding, after the Queen's
Bounty was obtained i and should, with all oonyenisnce, go into Priest's orders, and
should assist the Yioar in yisiting the sick and Christening in those Quarters wherein
their Chapels are situated, immediately giving notice of the names of those they
Christen, to be inserted in the Parish Blister, and fidthfully remitting all Pees they
should reoeiTe for Churohings, to the Vicar. That Divine Service may be used until
Mr, Armetriding's very charitable benefiujtion takes effect, if moneys can be raised
towards giving the Preacher a Crown every time he officiates j and when the Chapels
are endowed there shall be P^waching every Lord's Day in the morning, and only
Prayers in the afternoon. When the Holy Sacrament is to be administered at the
Parish Church the Curates shall repair thither to assist the Vicar in the Prayers,
P^waching, and delivering the Wine^ if he shall require it : and if the Vicar and his
Curate should be sick, or should the Vicar keep no Curate, the Curates of the Cha-
pels shall, alternately, perform Divine Service at the Parish Church. The Curate
of Heapy to be constantly resident, and on the spot, somewhere within that Cha-
pelry ; the Holy Sacrament to be administered twice a year in each Chapel ; and all
the oblations to be added to the Poor's Money in the Bank, by the four Church-
wardens. Bishop Ghwtrell does not appear to have quite approved of this ** man-
agement" of Mr. SudelL — Gastrell's MSS, im ike Eogifi^y Cherter,

The Vicar of Leyland is the Patron.

' The Bev. Thomas Armetriding was instituted to the Vicarage of Leyland on the
presentation of £dward Fleetwood Esq. in the year 1689, and died there in 1719.

VOL. II.] 3 D

386 #totttta Ce0tttemt0.

««*»,' Ccrtif.[ied] 07^ • 09» • 00^,
Int.[ere8t] of money left by sev.[eral]
persons, viz. S*" Ricli.[ard] Standish,^ 60^, charged upon y« Tyths
of this TownsP; Hen.[ry] Houghton^ 50^; R. Croston^ 2tf ; [and]
sev.[eral] other persons^ 19*.

3 long m.[iles] firom Lealand^ and from any other Ch.
[urch.]
Supplyed by [the] Vic. [ar] of Lealand^ or his Curate.

1 Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834, £111. Begisten entered at Leyland.

Robert de Hepay, in the 28th Edward I. (1299,) sold the Manor of Hepay to
Hugh, 8on of Balph, and father of Bichard de Standish, whose eldest son, Ralph,
held the Manor of Standish, and whose younger son, James, was the Manerial owner
of Duxhury. The Manor descended to Sir Frank Standish Bart, at whose death in
the year 1812, the Estate devolyed on his cousin, Frank Hall Esq. at whose death, in
1841, it passed to his kinsman, William Standish Standish of Duxhury Esq. the pre-
sent owner. Kuerden states that Hepay had an ancient Park belonging to it.

In the year 1650 the Chapel was returned as being five miles firom Ley land Church,
and fit to be made Parochial. Mr. John Bradley was the preaching Minister, " and
came into that place by the general consent of the whole Chapelry." He receiyed
£40 per annum, allowed by the State. The Tithe Com of the Township was valued
at £14 a year, and was claimed by Richard Standish of Buxbuiy Esq. — ParL Znq.
Lamb, Uibr, vol. ii

On the 1st of January 1687, Hugh Armetryding of Whittle le Wood, yeoman, and
Thurstan Leyland of Clayton, yeoman, gave their bond to John Blackledge, Henry
Ghirstang, and Thomas Morris of Heapey, yeomen, and John Pearson, yeoman, for
£80,' to seeure the interest of half that sum **for and towards the maintenance of a
preaching Minister at the parochiall Chapel of Heapey within the Parish of Leyland,
without colucon or further delay." — Xonc. M88, voL zxrii. p. 2.

The Chapel was erected about the end of the seventeenth century, by voluntaiy
contributions ; enlarged, by a Brie( in the year 1740, at an expense of £1084 ; and
again enlarged in the year 1828-9. — Baines's Bxst, of Lane, vol. iii. p. 465.

' Sir Richard Standish, created a Baronet on the 8th of February 1676-7. He
married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Holcroft of Holcroft Esq. She died in 1785,
set circ. one hundred years. The Baronetcy became extinct in 1812.

IDeatiers ^f l^eslanD. 387

mvmtevis:misL»f' about loo^ ^.

p.[er] an. [num.] Patron, Mr. Fleet- £.8. a.

wood. Here was formerly a Monastery^ to w®'' tms Church was syn. . o. 2.
given by y« Founder. V.[ide] M(m.[a8ticon,'] supra. ^Auiaidby^* "

4 Wardens, [and] 4 Assist, [ants.] „ ^"p^p"^

Pap 27

Pop. Fam. 9

1 Dedicated to St. Maiy. Value in 1884, £106. Begiaten begin in 1686. DbJ^amuP

Fenwortham, the Fenererdant of Dometday, was held by Edward the Confessor,
who had here a Castle, supposed to have been built to guard the estuary of the Bibble
when Bibchester formed a Roman station. William the Conqueror gaye the Manor
to Roger de Busli, who probably made the Castle his baronial residence. The fourth
in descent firom Roger was Hugh de Bussel, who, in the 6th Bichard I. paid forty
marks for his relief; and being involred in litigation with John, Earl of Morton,
afterwards King John, respecting the title of his inheritance, had the misfortime to
lose the Barony of Penwortham, which, in the year 1205, (7th John,) was sold to
Boger de Lacy, for three himdred and ten marks of silyer. From the Earls of Chester
and Lincoln, the Barony passed by marriage to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and
became merged in the Duchy of Lancaster. The Castle has disappeared, but the site
on the North side of the Church, is preserved in the name of '* Castle Hill," and by a
fosse of forty yards square, which had enclosed the great Keep.

The Manor was given to the Abbey of Eyesham in Worcestershire, by Wann, the
son of Boger de Bussel, and, on the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was couTeyed
by the Crown to John Fleetwood Esq. whose descendant, Katherine, daughter of
Bichard Fleetwood of Fenwortham, married, in the serenteenth century, William
Farington Esq. of Worden, and conveyed this Manor to his &mily, which descended
to the late Jamea Nowell ffiirington of Worden Hall Esq.

Soon after the Norman Conquest, a Cell, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was erected
here by the Monks of Evesham, under the protection of the Bussels ; and the Church
of Fenwortham was given to the Farent Abbey, no Vicarage being ordained, as the
Farish Church was supplied by the Monks from the Friory. — See Gkwtrell's NotUia
CegtrieruiSy voL i. p. 90.

After the Dissolution, this Cell, and its Chapel, within a Moat, and the Tithes and
Lands belonging to it and to Leyland, were sold by Queen Elizabeth to John Fleet-
wood of Little Flumpton Esq. for £8,088 ; and the Monastery was converted into a
dwelling-house by the purchaser. — MS. pen, Bev, John JPiceope.

The Church of Fenwortham existed shortly aft«r the Norman Conquest, having
been given in the reign of William Bufus to the Abbey of Evesham, but it is not
named in Dometdojf. In the year 1291 it was valued at £20. The edifice is a small
gloomy structure consisting of an embattled Tower, Nave, South Aisle, and Chancel,
chiefly of late Perpendicular work.

Lieut. Colonel Bawstome is the Patron.

388 #totitia etntxiemisL

KalU. [Penwortham Hall^^ and Priory.^]

g^wh [An] Inquis. [ition was] taken an. [no] 22d Jac. 1. about mis-
employed money given tow.[ards] a Ghram.[mar] School here.
MS. Htdm. 98, a. 16, 88.

Cl^nllv. WjSM flint to this Parish for y« use of y« Poor 126^ by Bob.[ert]
WHm Wearden, Cook, an. [no] 1649, w^ is settled in Trost on
four Feoffees.

flugm. M «N«f2r«N,' Certif.[ied] W^W-OO^;

^5 how this arose I can't tell, it having
been Certified since y^ no other provision belonged to y* Min.

In the year 1650 Penwortham was styled a Parish, and the Tithes, heing paid in
kind, were valued at £174^ which **Mr. John Fleetwood of Penwortham Ssq." dainwd
as his inheritance. His demesne hinds had paid no Tithes in the memory of man ; but
if tithable they would produce £8 a year. Mr. William Seddon was the preaching
Minister, and had been **put in by the said Mr. Fleetwood, together with the consent
of the rest of the Parish of Penwortham, and his Stipend-Wages is £60 a year,
which he receiyes firom Mr. Fleetwood." — FarL Inq, Lamb. lAbr. toL iL

' Penwortham Hall has been taken down, and a handsome Elisabethan house waa
erected on its site, by Laurence Bawstome Ssq. in the year 1882. It is beautifiillj
situated near the Church, and commands a fine view of the majestic Bibble.

B The Prioiy was sold in the last century, by Mr. Fleetwood, to John AspinaU of
Standen Hall near CTlitheroe Esq. who resold it to John Barton Ssq. \ by whom the
AdTowsons of Penwortham and Longton, and other property, were conveyed by sale^
about the year 1783, to Laurence Bawstome of Hutton Orange Esq. on whose death
in 1808, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Lieut. Ck>lonel Laurence Bawstome of
Penwortham Hall.

1 Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £148. Begisters begin in 1818.

The Manor of Longton was granted by Boger de Lacy to Bobert, brother of Hugh
de Buasel, and in the 46th Edward m. Sir William de Lee held one fourth of the

Manor, from whom it passed to Fleming of Leyland, descended from Fleming

Baron of Wath ; and in the 9th Henry lY. Sir Thomas Fleming gave to Henry, son
of Balph de Bretherton, his whole Lordship of Longton. In the 6th Edward IV.
Hugh de Bretherton confirmed to William Fleming the fourth part of the Manor.
Of this fiimily was Elizabeth, coheiress of her brother, John Fleming, who married
Thurstan Hall, in the reign of Henry YIII. The Manor, however, appears to have
been iactitioue, and no Manorial privileges are now exereised. ^Tho five Lords of

•eatievs of l^csianB* 389

[ister] but [the] Int.[ere8t] of 50^ given by W. Loxam, and some
small CSontrib.[utions] w^^ have been withdrawn since y* 6 Lords
of 7* Manonr gave Lands to y* value of 250^ for J^ Augment,
[ation] of y* Chap.[elJ w^ was accepted by [the] Gov.[emors]
of [the] Q'» Bounty, an, [no] 1719.

the Manor," were represented in the year 1888, by Bobert Mobs Esq. the reputed
Lord.

The ChageL was in existence in the year 1617} and William Walton, Priest, by
Win dated January 7th 1627-8^ after directing his body to be buried in the Church
of Groeton, ''under the Bode celler afore the chsunoeiU," says, ** AIso^ I gyve and be-
qnethe to the chapeU of Longeton, a Masse boke, a chalyoe and all other ornaments
belongyng and p'tenyng to the oelebrOn of masse. Also, I gere in my life, and be-
qnethe in this my last wiH, to Bobert ffiuyngton, sone of Bioh<* ffiuington, y* chauntro
which I of late hAue purchased, founded, and putt in feo£Bune't to certen feoffes, as
doith appere w* a dedaraoGn of my wiH, mynde, and testamSt, quadripertite, there-
unto anneied for the oontynuance, p'servaoOn, and fulfOlynge of the same, which
feoibment and dedlaracGn of my sayd will and testamSt is dated the zx*^ day of May,
the ix^ yere of the Begne oiF Kyng Henre the yig^, and also sealed w* my scale and
the ordynaryes scale, the zxri^j^ day of the moneth of May, in the yere of our lord
god a thousand t hundredth and zy^*^, and the ix*^ yere of the regno of Eyng henre
the yvijf^. The which dhauntzie is founded for the chapelle of longeton, w* all mess,
tenements, burgages, landis, and other th' app'ten*nce ytmto belongyng, in fulfOlyng
and p'formyng my will under such condicGns, corenanntes, and articles named, speci-
fied, and declared in my said feoifiunent and in my wiU and testament, quadrip*tite^
y'opon declared, dated as aforesaid, p*o'ided alwayes that whyles the said Bob't doith
want laliill age to be p*st, (that is to wete ij years,) then I will y* S' John Walton
occupye and solempnise dyrine sfice at the forsaid chapeU of lon§^n. Butt I will
that he receyre his wages yerely duryng the said yj yeres, o( and by the hands oflT
Bich' faryngton aforesmd. And further, I will y' John Walton, p'st, in his tyme^
and also Bob't fioyngton, in his tyme, and all other preests, in theyr tyme^ succes-
BiYeilty, for ev*, shal dispose^ ordur, and use theymself aocordynge to my said wiU,
mynd, and testament, made and declared opon the sayd &oi&ne't afor^ dated. Also,
I will, giye^ and bequeth that, aft' the tyme of Sir John Walton, and also aftF the
tyme of the said Bobert &xyngton, the said chauntre^ w^ all and singler th' i^'ten'nce
y^ belongynge, shall Bemayne hoUe for er'mor^, and be ]>eputed, ordyned, assigned,
geyen, and p'esentyd by the patrons and Donators, in theyr tumes, aocordynge to the
DedaraoGn oiF my feoffionent and wiU, to one of my Uode and Kynne, and of my
name^ (if ther be any,) ey' so descendyng lynally, fro' tyme to tyme^ from us, pro-
Tided alwi^es that nether my said feoffionent and will thereopon made and declared,
dated aforesaid ; nor also the p'ste so p'sented, for the tyme beyng, shall in any tyme
thereaft' be p'iudiciall, hurtfoll, or nyous to the church of penwoth'm, as in mynissh-
eyng, delayng, w'drawyng, or dofraudyng any Bightes, customes, or uses, heretofore

390 jSiotitiji enttrinwis.

' ^^^ '^^ " ** ^"^^ School Founded 6 Edw.[ard] 6, by Chris.
jjSwi [tophcr] Waltoii,^ yeoman, who endowed it with 4 marke
and 4^ p-[er] an. [nam,] arising out of Lands in Preston, &c.
enfeoffed in 12 trustees, Inhah.[itants] of y* Pariah, who have soe
advanced y« value of y" Lands y* there are 2 Masters, th6 y* miun-
tenance of y» one depends very much on y« Contrih. [otions] of y*
People. V.[ide] Nom. [ination,] an.[no] 1701. Pap. Reg.

J'\ SStXISS^IS,' ahove SOO* p.[er] an.[num.] STANnisn
I CUM Langtree. The Advowson has been long in the
;^r^.,| Family of Standish, a Papist ; hut the pres* Ralph
^^J | Standish having been convicted of being in y» Rebel-

lion an. [no] 1715, the Estate and Advowson wf> it, were sold by

KKnutomed uid lued to the Bsid cbnroh. And fortber, I will that ii^ Mednlea be
made qnadrip'tite, indebted, and sesled v' mj seole and with tbe o'j*, ray feoflament
and nil] annexed, aooording to the true purport and meani'ge of thii my p'Kmt la«t
will, and in full aooompliBbement of the same. A]»o, I will j' er'y p'st, for the tyme
being, for er'moTe, ihall make mfficieiit reparaoOna and bjdgyngee of howaee, mesa,
burgage*, tenamentea, w' other th' appurten'noe of hia tenandea, (as ofte' aa ibalbe
neoeasary and nedefiil,) opon hia owen p'pnr orata and charges." — X(Mf. MBS.

In tbe year 1660 tlie Cbapelry wu oonaidered fit to be made Parochial, althongh
there waa neither Incumbent not Ch^el endowment. The Tithes were lalned at £80
per annum, and were claimed by Mr. Fleetwood of Penwortham. It was rebralt, of
brick, in the year 1770 j and a burial ground waa consecrated in 1816.

Mr. Bawatome is the Patron.

- By Indenture dated the 22d of September, in the 6th Sdward TI. Christopher
Walton deriscd all his lands and toDemeuts in Kirkham, Kellamergh, and Preston, in
the oouoty of Lancaater, the rents being fonr marts and two pence, to Trasteea, to
proridc one able person leomed in the science of drammar, to t«ach children in
the "Absay, Catochism, FrimBr, Accidence, perreley," without taking school-hire,
in Penwortham. In the jear 1606 John Walton, aon and heir of Christopher, gave
additional lands in Longton and Hutton, for the sumo pnrpose. The School is
sitoate in Hutton in tbis Perish. In the year 1828 the rcnU amounted to upwards
of £67G a year, bat hare since incrcaecd in value.

> Dedicated to 3t. Wilfred. Value in 1884, £1,874. Betters begin in 155S.
Bichard de Bniscl, Baron of Penwortham, garc the Tonnehips of Slandish cum

Btmtts of IrfsIatiD. 391

y« Crown to one Edw.[ard] Biscoe; but ^tis supposed to be in
TViMt, for Standish, and y® Right of Presentation is now in Dis-
pute, an. [no] 1722.

Edw.[ard] Standish Esq. presented an. [no] 1558. In8i.[itU'
iian] B.[ook,'] 1, p. 51.

2 Wardens, and 9 Sidesmen.

The Eleven Townships [Standish with Langtree, Shevington, CTolDtur. ii.
Worthington, Adlington, Anderton, Coppull, Welch Whittle,
Ihixbury, Chamock Richard, and Heath Chamock,] choose every
one a Sidesman, out of w^^ the Rectour chooses one Church-
warden, and y® whole Parish chooses y® other.

Langtree in marriage wifch his sister, to Bichord Spileman; and in the time of
Henry III. according to the TeHa de NevUVy these lands had become -vested in
Thnrstan Banastre, probably under the superior Lord. In the 16th Edward I. the
Manor of Standish was held by Jordan de Standish of the Earl Eerrers, and his
descendant, John (called Balph, by Baines,) Standish of Standish, in the year 1881,
(5th Bichard II.) assisted Sir William Walworth in dispersing Wat 3^1er*s Mob, whan
the Dnke of Lancaster's Palace in the Sayoy was attacked, and is called by Eroissart,
" a Squyer of the Kynge's," who obtained the honour of Knighthood. The Manor
continued in the direct male line until the death of Balph Btandiah Esq. about the
year 1752, when it was oonyeyed by his sole daughter, Cecilia Standish, to her hus-
band, WiUiam Towneley of Towneley Esq. The derotion of Mr. Standish to the
House of Stuart, induced him to take an active part in the Bebellion of 1716, and led
to the forfeiture of the Standish Estates ; but they appear to have been purchased for
the fiornly, and were afterwards enjoyed by Charles Towneley Esq. E.S.A. memorable
for his splendid collection of Marbles, now in the British Museum. On his death in
the year 1805, the Estates passed to his brother, Edward Towneley Standish $ but he
dying s.p. in 1807, the Standish property, by fiunily settlement, became Tested in his
nephew, Thomas Strickland of Sixergh in Westmoreland Esq. who assumed, by sign
Ti R< \ pii ftl ^ the surname of Standish, and was succeeded in 1818 in the Standish Estates
by his eldest son, Charles Standish Esq. now the Manerial owner of Standish cum
Langtree, and Patron of the Living.

The Church was valued at £18. 6s. 8d. in the year 1291 ; and in the 86th Edward
m. was found to be endowed with the Chapel of Anderton, (which has ceased to
exist,) and vdth lands there. On the 8th kal. Jan. 1301, Henry de Waleys, Pres-
byter, was instituted, in London, to the Church of Standish, on the presentation of
William de Standish. — Lih, 1/2 foL 9, a. Beg, LangUm in Our, lAckf. The Advow-
son has been in the Standish fiunily from a very early period, and was probably the
gift of the Ferrers', Earls of Derby. They have seldom presented to the Living
since the Beformation.

892 fijotitiA etnMnmisL

KalU. [Adlington^^ Duxbury,' and Staiidish>]

M^oL S^^ ^te is a i^ree School^ endowed by Mary Langton^ Widow,
iSn an. [no] 1626, [by WiU dated IStli Feb. 1603J w«^ 800^,
w<*, by an order of y« Dutchy Court, [in 1620,] was to be laid out
in Land worth 18^ p*[er] an.[num;] and it was laid out upon a
capital messuage and tenem^ called Traighton [Troughton] Hall,

The sacred straotare conusts of a Tower, Nave, AisleB, and Chancel, with two
Ghantiy Chapeb, dissolyed in the year 1548 $ that on the North side belonging to
the Patrons, and founded by them. The Church was rebuilt in the year 1584^ by
Biohard Modie^ a oonyerted Franciscan Monk, and the first Protestant Beotor, who
was instituted to the laying in 1568, and died here in 1586.

The Church is rich in brasses and monuments of the Wrightingtons, ChisenhaiUs,
Claytons, Standishs', and sereral of the Beotors.

Li the year 1660 the Patronage was claimed by Balph Standish of Standish Esq.
The Parsonage-house and 01ebe were worth £60 a year ; sereral ancient tenements
and cottages, and yearly rents, amonnted to £8. 4b, 2d. j and the Tithes were yalaed
at £146 per annnm. Mr. Paul Lathom, the Incumbent, in pursoance of an Order
of the Parliament, came in by the election of the Parishioners, who met at Standish
on the day appointed, and all there^ save one, TOted for the said Mr. Lathom ; and he
had the endowment abore described. He was a painfol and orthodox Diyine, and
obseryed the Core eyeiy Lord's Day, bat did not obserye the last Fast Day on the
18th of Jnne^ and haying doe notice thereof did not publish the Act of Parliament.
The Demesne, belonging to the said Mr. Standish, was in the town; but had not
formerly paid Tithes. Mr. Lathom reoeiyed the whole Tithes of the Parish, worth
£146 a year. The late owners of the Hall-o*-th*-HiU and of Demesne Lands
lying in Heath Chamoak, (lately purchased by Mr. WiIHam Badley of Salford in
the county of Lancaster,) who claimed the Tithes of the said lands by Prescription,
under the rent of 18s. 4d. which they tendered eyery Miohaelmas Day, but whioh was
neyer receiyed in the memory of man, would be worth, if paid in kind, £1. 6s. 8d,
a year. It was thought fit that a Church should be built at a place called Fishcrofi^
in Duxbuiy, being four statute miles from the Parish Church. — ^orL Aq. Lamb»
Idbr, yoL ii.

Concerning diyers Moduses in this Parish, see the Case of Turton vemu Clayton,
21 1720} Bwibwyy 188. Ducarel's Sepertory.

Bishop Gkwtrell mentions no gentleman's Seat in this Parish i but it is said that
<* the two and thirty Halls which formerly existed, haye, ydth few exceptions, sunk
into n^lect and decay." — Baines's JHirtory of Lancathiref yoL iii p. 606. Of these
exceptions the principal are, —

3 Adlington, which was held by the fimiily of that name in the 16th Edward L and
continued in the male line until about the time of Charles II. when the Manor

•eattfts 6f i^esbitlli* 808

in Fumes^ [being ab^ 30 acres;] but for sev.[eral] years past^ that
Estate has not been set for above 11^- 10" p.[er] an.[niimj (and
the Trustees hayings in 1707, become possessed of it^ in conse-
quence, have received the rents ever since,) but j^ Timber sold off
it has yielded 4if, [the] Int.[ere8t] of w^ is paid to y« Master;
besides w^ he has a small paroell of ground called School Croft,
left to him, upon j^ Enclosure of y« Common in Standish.

Mr. [WiUiam] Leigh, Ilect.[or] of Standish, (in 1688,) left 12^
p. [er] an. [num] for an Usher in this School, charged upon Lands
in and about Goosenargh, and vested in 12 feoffees.

Oien to y« Poor of this Parish by W.[illiam] Lathom 100^; €^uxitM.

by J.[ohn] Johnson, (in 1697,) 7^ p«[er] an. [num,] out of
Lands in Standish, w^ is yearly laid out in Linnen Cloth, acoordfl^
to his Will; Mr. [William] Haydock, late aect.[or,] left 120J to
y*sev.[eral] towns, [hips,] being sev.[eral] Legaoyes, Forfeitures,
and Sacr. [ament] Money, of w«^ Standish and Langtree had 21^ ;
now improved to 261 Lbff to Standish and Lanotrbe, by
Mrs. Eliz.[abeth] Lathom, in (1708,) dO^; [by] Mrs. [Elizabeth]
Cooper, ab^ 8^ P*[6i^] an. [num,] out of a tenem* in Chorley, (in
1688.) To Standish, Lanotbbb, and Shevinoton, left by Tho>

sold to Thomas Clayton Esq. who died in the year 1722, aged ninety-two. His
great-grandson, Bichard Clayton, was created a Baronet in the year 1774^ (not in
1744^ as stated by Ghr^gson, p. 260,) haying snooeeded to the Estates of his imde^
Bidiard CUyt<»i Esq. E.C. Lord Chief Jnstioe of the Common Pleas, in Ireland.
Sir Richard was Becorder of Wigan ; and dying British Consul at Nantes, in the year
1828, left by his wife, Ann, daoghter of Charles White Esq. F.B.6. of ICanohester, an
only daughter and heiress, Henrietta, who married in 1808, General Bobert Browne^
who, in 1829 assumed the surname of Clayton, and had issae an only son, Biohard
Clayton Browne Clayton Esq. of Adlington Park. Tke House is of brick, and was
rebnllt.by Sir Biehard Clayton about the year 1779.

' Buxbory, the Manerial property of Hugh Standish in the 84th Edward I. con-
tinued in the male line untfl the death of Sir Frank Standish, the third Baronet, in
the year 1812, when the Baronetcy became extinct, and the Duzbury Estates deyolred
on his cousin. Prank Hall Esq. only son of Anthony Hall Esq. and grandson of
Anthony Hall, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Standish, the second
Baronet. Mr. Prank Hall assumed the surname of Standish, and dying s.p. in the
year 1841, was succeeded by his kinsman, William Standish Standish Esq. grandson

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394 ftotftfa Cextrietmte*

Burchell, (in 1712,) lOtf, the Iiit.[ere8t] to be laid out in White
Bread eT.[ery] Sunday. To Sheyington, by Mrs. Jane Holt,
601; Mr. Holt, 25^; Mr. Finch, lO^; out of Mr. Heydock's
money, 15*; by Mrs. CSooper, out of y« tenem* in Chorley, 8"-6d
p.[er] an. [num.] [To] Welsh Whittle, by Th.[urstan] Hea-
Idn, 20" p.[er] an.[num,] to be Distributed at y« Discretion of his
Brother [Nicholas,] and his heirs, in 1704.

[To] Chabnock Richard, by Mrs. [Elizabeth] Lathom, (in
1703,) 801; Jam. [es] Chamock, (in 1703,) 4i.l0«p.[er] an.[num,]
out of Lands; Mr. BA Hoghton, (in 1687,) 20» p.[er] an.[num,]
out of Land in Euxton; Mrs. Cooper, 12^ p*[er] an.[num,] out of
Lands in Chorley; out of Mr. Heydock's money, 15^.

[To] Heath Charnock, by Tho.[mas] Halsworth, 50^; Mrs.
Cooper, 4^-10" p.[er] an.[num;] out of Mr. Heydock's money,
101.

[To] Anderton, by Mrs. Cooper, 8» p.[er] an.[num;] Tho*
Johnson, (in 1680,) 3» • 2<* p. [er] an. [num ;] out of Mr. Heydock's
money, 8i.l3"-6<*, w^ is advanced to 9^. [John Shaw, by Will
dated 19th July 1627, gave Lands to the Poor ; George Shaw, by
Will dat^ 29th Oct. 1650, gave £100.]

[To] DuxBURT, by Mrs. Cooper, 4^«10»p.[er] an. [num;] their
share of Mr. Heydock^s money made up to 10^ William Mason^
in 1638, gave Lands to the native Poor; John Chamley, in 1712,
gave £30.

Left by Mrs. Mary Langton, (who gave 300^ to y« School,) 100^

of tlie Ber. Balph Oarr M.A. of Gooken HaU in the county of Durham, and of hia wife
Ann, sole daughter of Anthony Hall Esq, and Margaret Standiah.

Of this House was Henry Standish, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1518 — ^1535, a Prelate, who
being sealous for Popery, thought it adTisable to deal with Heniy YUJ, preeibtu ei
laehfynUtf rather than by argument and authority, and is said to haye fedlen down on
his knees before that tyrant when he was about withdrawing his neck from the Papal
yoke^ and implored him to continue the religion of his ancestors.

* Standish Hall, formerly moated, containing a priyate Boman Catholic Chapel, ia
an irregular brick building, situated about six miles to the South of Chorley, and
three miles from Wigan. It has been the chief seat of the fiunily of the same name
from the time of Edward I. and is the property, though not at present the residenoe,
of Charles Standish Esq. formerly M.P. for Wigan.

•eaners ^t l^^sbuiS* 895

tow. [ards the] Belief of certain Poor Women of Standish, Ley-
land, and Chorley. This and y 800^ settled by Verdict, an. [no]
1626. MS. Hvlm. 08, a. 16, 51.

dyni^l^J This Chap.[el] was augm*
bnilt ab* an. [no] 1657, by Will.[iain] ^^^^^ |
Crook, the Inhab.[itants] contributing Labour, &c. and afterwards
by Money for Seats, reimbursing him most part of his Charge.

> No PMron Saint. Value in 1884, £82. Begisten begin in 1765.

The Manor of Coppnl was held in the 6th Gharles I. by Edward Bigbye of Bnrgh
Esq. ; and was pnrohased by John Hodeon of Bllerbeck Esq. M.P. for Wigan in the
year 1820. Dying vrithout issne, his Estates passed to the issne of his sister Jane,
who married Febmaiy 26th 1777, Bichard CardweU Esq. and was mother of the
Ber. Bichard Gardwell, Minister of St. Paul's, Lirerpool, who died s.p. and of James
Oardwell Esq. now of EUerbeok, uncles of Edward Oardwell Esq. M.P. late Secretary
of the Treasury.

At the time of the Norman Suryey a Church existed here, which was giren by
Boger de Poictou to the Abbey of Sees in Normandy, ¥dth the Priory of St. Mary of
Lancaster. The Ohapel, built before the year 1657, probably occupies the site of this
ancient foundation. In the year 1650 the Parliamentary Inquisitors reported that
there was ** formerly an antient Ghappell in Ooppull, near unto a place called the
Cowmoss; and we present that a Church be erected in Coppull aforesaid, oax, the
same place where the olde Hall of Cheenall, situate in Coppull, formerly stood ; and
the residue of Coppull af oresaide to be annexed to the new erected Church, and be
made a distinct Parish $ and a road to be allowed by Edward Chisnall of Chisnall
Esq. owner of the Inheritance ; and that he allow stones towards and for the Build-
ing of the same Church, and assigne out a oonyeniant Church Yard for buiying of
Corps." — FarL Jmq, Lamb, lAhr, voL iL

A Statement was drawn up in the year 1715, by Mr. William Torton, respecting
the position of Coppul Chapel, and of the impiety, intrigue^ and tyranny of its
Bulers, for the information of Bishop GastreO, which is abridged as follows: —
*' The Chapel was built after the year 1641, in the times of BebeUion, when Dr. Bride-
oak, then Bector of Standish, was forced to giro place to one Lathum, of the Parlia-
ment's nomination. The expense was borne by several of the Inhabitants of Coppul,
the Lord of the Manor inyesting in G^ustees, a piece of the Common, as a site. At
the Bestoration, Br. Brideoak was restored to Standish, and made Bishop of Chi-
chester ; and this Chapel was nerer used, as at first designed, for a Dissenting Meet-
ing House. Mr. Haddock, who succeeded Dr. Brideoak, allowed his Curate to
preach here once a month, until the Chapel was repaired with the interest of £200
which had been left to maintain an orthodox Protestant Preacher. The Inhabitants

396 #ottita Cmrfemuk

[It is] not Consecrated, but nerer used for Dissent. [«rs'] Meeting.
y.[ide] Rev. Mr. HeydocVs Actf- an. [no] 1715. Pc^. Reg.

Certif.[ied] 10^ p*[er] an.[numj the Int.[ere8t] of 200^ given
by divers persons^ now in y« hands of S' Edw.[ard] Chisnall, v^
not being soe appropriated to -y* use of y« Chappell^ but it may be
otherwise employed^ was accepted by [the] Gov.[emors] of [the]
Cl.[ueen]'8 Bounty tow^ y« Av^ment. [ation] of this Chappell, and
y* whole 400^ is now laid out upon y« Tyths of Elston in Preston
Parish^ and set for 20^ p«[er] an.[nuni^] an. [no] 1718.

then requested Mr. Haddook to place there ae Cniate, Mr. Ingbain, and bj yohmtaiy
oontribotionB they made up the £10 a oompetenoj for him. During the hat year or
two, at leaat, Mr. Tngham gave great oiFenoe by his immoral li£», and the sokminwa-
tion of olaadeetina marriageB ; and the oontrihations were withdrawn. Many of the
Inhabitants, on the death of Mr. Haddock, complained to the anoceeding Bector of
Mr. Tngham, and desired his removaL Whereupon the Bector acquainted the Bishop
of Ohester, afterwards Archbishop of York, who ordered him to desist, and to oiB-
date no more until his Lordship's pleasure should be further known. Notwithstand-
ing this, Mr. Tngham, by order of Sir Edward Chisenhall and Mr. Crooke^ who both
attended him to the Chapel, continued to officiate^ Mr. Crooke affirming that the
Bishop and Bector had nothing to do there^ as the Ghi^Ml was unconsecrated ; and
he pxeraOed on Sir Bdward, and on one Crook, a yeoman, the only remaining Trus-
tees for the ground of the Chapel, and of £200 left to it by diffinent persona and
deeds^ to make oyer their right to him. This unadTised act Sir Edward Chisenhall
repented of immediBtely, and ludicrously enough withheld the £200 firom Mr.
Orooke $ which he demanding, there followed some sharp agitation, many squabbles,
breaking open of doors, and taking possessiob and repossession of the CSu^ between
them. Mr. Crooke afterwards pretended to make over his right of Trusteeship to
the Lord Willoughby of Farham, a man who ei^oyed a great reputation amongst tiie
Presbyterians, and who broke open the Chapel doors on Mr. Crooke's beha]£ The
Bishop of Chester being made aoquainted with the prooeedingsi (enMptiBg Wil-
lou^by's Wolenoe^ which happened afterwards,) was pleased to dedare that whatever
right the parties might hare to an unconsecrated building, they could authorise no
dergyman to Preach in his Diocese, without his license. The Church-wardens for
Coppul thea presented Mr. Ingham for Clandestine Mairiages, open Drunkenness,
and for Preaching and Officiating, haying neither License from the Bidiop^ nor per-
mission from the Bector ; the Chanoellor, howeyer, cautiously defened pronouncing
sentence, upon ittbimatioa from l&x, Crooke that if Mr. Ingham was silanced, he
(Crooke) designed to haye a License from the Justices of the Peace to make it a
Ptesl^yterian Meeting House. After this, Mr. Crooke thoufj^t fit to assert his own
right, as he cidled it, and act the Matter in spite of the Mmrier^ and took the Key
of the Chapel even fixmi his friend Mr. Tngham, and in 1716 no one officiated there ;

9tantts af l^IatiO. 397

[The] Augment, [ation was] accepted by [the] Gk)v.[emor8] of
[the] Q.[ueeii]'8 Bounty^ an. [no] 1716.
Given since 20^^ by Edw.[ard] Chisnall of Preston.
Chisenhall.^ K«IL

IftnOM 9l^fUm» in 1680^ gave a Mess, [uage] in Tockholes Cfixritv*
to the Poor of Goptdl and Anderton ; two parts of the rents
[to be giren] to the Poor of CopnU.

80 thai;, to use a phrase of Honie Tooke'a, 'the iQpmpOBiatio liberty of the derioal
Bubject' had, very properly, not been establiflhed. The Deeds of the Ground and
Money, were in Mr. Crooke's hands, and he refused to produce them; and was
shortly afterwards killed in a duel, by Captain Buckley of Buckley." — Jjane, 3£S8.

On tiie 7& of ^ee«feAMir 1716, Sfr Bdward CbiMnhaU "wtote from Ohiseohall to
the Bishop of Chester, in which he stated that the Chapel was built in the yean 1654
and 1666, and a Pn^it, Bea^Ung Desk, and J9eats made theNim by the Inhabitants of
Coppul; and that for ten years past, Mr. Thomas Ingham had served the Cure, and
constantly read the Prayers of the Church every Sunday, **and gives good content in
his Sermons to the said Inhabitants and all other his Benefiwtors and Hearers ;" and
that the interest of £200, " out upon Bond, in my name," was constantly paid to
the said Mr. Ingham, besides contributions from his hearers. Bishop Gaatiell had
the happiness to see these miserable feuds allayed, tranquillity restored, and the Cha-
pel secured, on a proper basis, as a Benefice with Cure of Souk. The Chapd was
rebuilt in the year 1768, and enlarged in 1840.

The Beotor of Standish is the Patron.

3 Chisenhall Hall, in Coppul, is now a fiirm-house. It was tiie seat of the Chisen-
halL frmily from the thirteenth centnry until the death of Sir Edward Chisenhall,
whose daughter and heiress, Ann, married about the year 1094, Stephen fiamerton of
HeUifield Peel Esq. and conveyed the Estate to his fiunily, wMoh is now possessed hy
his representative, Chisenhall Hamerton Esq. M.A. Barriste^at-Law. — Lame, M88.
Fed, voL xit

C{)ur(|)es antr Cj^apete in [t^t] ^rd^trea^
conrp of Et^monH, ^cfjools atOi

ftamac;f)frr.

Branrs ot SltnotinDmuc;^;* or atntijrmrtfdf*
or ^aflna BenutfCr.

V.[ide] JfS. Eb. Fti. ofLan.

[ §i*^^^^^^?^^ I^l&iaitt.' Certif.ped] ff.OO-OO,

kii^'v flflilltJ//"''*^ ™' * P"™^ (rf ground, (given by Mr,

l^^^^llll^^^«^ R. Fleetwood,) worth {Taxes deducted)

^V^^nllUnlnMtA^ ^' P-[^''^ an.[nuin;] £aster Beckon-

^7^?if^ ^^fi HR/gJJvi Fleetwood Esq. of Rosse-Hall, settled
^^^^^^^g^^jjj upon thia Chnrcli an.[no] 1687, a

■^ Gsa^3 ^T^-'^^N^ Rent Cliarge of lOi p.[er] an.[nmD,]
for ever, V.[ide] Poolton, V,[ide] New Reg.\iiter.'\

The mediety of y* Chappell of BiBCopKeym was confirmed to y*
Abbey of Sayes [in Normandy,] and [to the] Priory of Lane, [as-
ter,] by [the] A. [rch]deac. [on] of Bich.[mond,] w''' y" grant of y*
other mediety after y* death of y* then possessonr. MS. Eb.\or.'\
pRioat OP Lai4.[cabtbb,] po$t. Y,[ide] Foolton,

■ AiuuHStEinaai ii mppoaed b; Dr. Wliitajfer, witli bis luual etymological aocu-
TMf, to take ita name from Auondot oi Aimnnder, the Daoiah gnutire case of

9tamts 6f atmmnSmtem* 899

Bispham cum Norbrick^ Layton cum Warbiick ; for w^ places Cofntuir. 2.
serve 4 Churchw.[arden8j 2 chosen by [the] Mm.[i6ter, and] 2
by [the] Parish.

Edmund, and neffe, a promontory or peninsular projection into the sea, which ety-
mology entirely accords with the natural appearance of this Wapentake.

As part of the kingdom of Northumbria, Amoundemess appears to hare been
considered ae a province of York ; for, at the consecration of the Monastery and
Church of Bipon, in the year 705, amongst other donations of the great Saxon
Frinoes and Nobles who witnessed that ceremony, Lands near Babble, in Hasmunder-
nesse, were bestowed on the new foundation. In the tenth century the entire district
of Amundemess was granted by King Athelstan to the Church of York ; but owing
to the ravages of the Danes, it seems to haye been abandoned by its Ecclesiastical
possessors, and to hare reverted to the Crown. At the Domesday Surrey, there were
only three Churches in the Hundred of Amoundemess — probably those of Preston,
Kirkham, and St. Michael — the last being expressly named, and sixteen villages.
Amoundemess was given to Boger de Foictou, on whose attainture it was replaced
in the Crown $ and was granted by Henry I. or Stephen, to Theobold Walter, and
confirmed to him by BIchard I. in the year 1193. It afterwards reverted to the
Crown ; and Heniy HE. granted the Wapentake, with the Castle and Honor of Lan-
caster, and sundry Manors, to Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, and these, with
the other Estates of the House of Lancaster, merged in the possessions of the Crown
in the reign of Henry IV . and still form part of the Duchy inheritance.

By the Ecdesiastioal divisions of the County, which are more ancient than the
formation of the Counties of Lancaster and Westmoreland, the Deanery of Amoun-
demess is placed in the Archdeaconry of Bichmond. In the year 1291 Lancaster,
St. Michael's, Preston, Bibcheeter, TCirkham, Poulton, and Gkrstang, are found in the
Deanery of Amoundemess ; and in the Valor of Henry Vlll. the discharged Y icarage
of Cookerham, and the Perpetual Curacies of Bispham and Ly tham, are added to the
number. — Whitaker's JSitioiy qf Sickmondskire, vol. iis Baines's HUtory qfLaih
cathirey voL iv.

* Patron Saint unknown. Yalue in 1834, £275. Begisters begin in 1599.

Bispham, is the Biscopham of Domesday^ in which name Dr. Whitaker recognises
the ancient Lords before the Conquest, the Archbishops of York, who held the whole
Wapentake. Geoffirey, the Sheirifl^ encouraged by the example of Boger de Poictou,
shortly after the Conquest, gave the Tithes of Biscopham, to the Prioiy of Lancaster.
A narrow Norman arch, which constitutes the door-way of the present Church, is
attributed by Dr. Whitaker to the time of William Bufus, or Henry I. In the reign
of Bichard L Theobald Walter quit claimed to the Abbot of Sees all his right in the
Advowson of Pulton, with the Church of Biscopham. In the year 1296 John
Bomanus, Archdeacon of Bichmond, confirmed to St. Martin of Sees, and St. Maiy
of Lancaster, amongst other possessions, the mediety of the Church of Pulton and

400 fiMtHA Cetttmniifo*

^f^an. No aneient Seats. [Rossall-Hall.]^

§^tituih ^^^ ^e is a Free School, Founded (about 1658) by John [Bach-
^Sn ard] Higginson (of St. FaitVs, London,) and by him en-
dowed [by WiU dated 25th July 1659,] w«> 10^ p.[er] an.[num,]
arising out of Lands bought for that purpose ; [but being Lands
belonging to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, they were
restored to that Corporation in 1660, and John Amherst of Gray's
Inn Esq. and Elizabeth his wife, widow and executrix of the said
Richard Higginson, to preserve the foundation, gave £200, which,

the Chapel of BiBoopham, and granted the other moiety of Pulton and Bisoophom
after the death of the then Incumbent; so that when both parts accrued to the
Abbot of Sees and the Prior of Lancaster, they should appoint a Yicar, whose
income should be twenty marks. Notwithstanding this, no Vicarage was ever
ordained. Shortly after the fotmdation of the Abbey of Dieulacres, William, Abbot
of Salop, a- &YOurite foundation of Boger de Poictou, granted to the Abbot and
Conyent of Dieulacres the town of Parva Biscopham, apparently on Lease. In the
81st Henry VJULl. it appeared that the Monks of Dieulacres paid annually to the
Abbot of Salop, £8. 18s. 4d« for lands in Norbroke and Biscopham ; besides 2s. to
Sir Thomas Butler, for lands in Biscopham. This was a payment to the rq^resenta-
tire of the ancient feudal Lords. At the Dissolution of the Beligious Houses, the
Manor fbll to the Crown $ and was granted in the 6th Edward YI. to Sir Balph Bag-
nell, but was sold shortly afterwards to John Fleetwood Esq. ancestor of Sir Peter
Hesketh Fleetwood Bart. M.P.

Bichard Fleetwood of Bossall Esq. settled £10 per annum on the Yicar of the
Parish Church of Bispham, (in his own gift,) by Deed dated the 14th of April
1687, payable firom lands in Presall and Hackensall $ and yet in the year 1660, Bisp-
liam was considered to be a Chapel in the Parish of Poulton, four miles from that
Church, and containing three hundred fEunilies, who humbly desired that they might
be constituted a distinct Parish, and haye a competent allowance for their Minister,
who only reoeiyed the Easter Dues, which amotmted to £6 a year. — PturL Imq.
Laimb. Libr. toL IL

The Church consists of an ancient short Tower, and a Kaye^ without Aisles, rebuilt
about a century ago, *'with the general economy which prevails in modem Church
building. The fate of the topographer whose lot it is to write of such places, is like
that of the portrait painter who is condemned to delineate total vacuity of features
and absence of expression." — Whitaker's EtHory of Michmondshire^ voL ii. p. 445.

Patron — the Bev. Charles Hesketh M.A.

' Bossall Hall, the birth-place of Cardinal Allen, whose &ther held it under lease
from the Abbey of Dieulacres, afterwards the seat of the Fleetwoods and Heskeths,
and now used as a schooL

IBeannrs of ISmouviOtvmM* 401

in 1687, was expended in Lands at Layton.] V.[ide] Nom.[ina-
tionj of Trustees an. [no] 1701. Pap. Reg.

[The] School [is] free to all y« Parish. 8 Trustees nominate y«
Master. [The] Land lyes in Layton w^'^in y« Par. [ish.]

%9y|»Na.' Certif.[ied] S&^l».04A, viz. paid by jj a ^^ a
[the] B.[ishop] of Chester, 10^, [and] by his Lessee, *
21M8-.44; Surp.[lice] Fees, 5^. By a Covenant in y« '^* *•
Bp's Lease, y* Vicar is to have y« use of y« Mansion or syn... o. a. o
Pars.[onage] house. [The] Undertenant payes 40« p.[er] an. J^ Jp^^ ;„j
[num] more to y« Vicar, by Order of [the] Abp. of York, y« ^%^.
Lessee. Vt&' Aecf- an. [no] 1720. Fam.

'Pun f&

10^ was reserved by Indent, [ure] of Excheq[uer,] and 5^ for a DUwrM.p.
Priest serving in y« said Church. Bjeg. [wfer.]

There belong to y« Vicar 6^ acres of Glebe land, a Vic. [arage]
house, and a Turf-room. Pap. uncertain.

By Terrier of [the] Churchw. [ardens,] only Pars.[onage] house
and Garden ; another Garden called the Rispe, and one Mosse-
dale, of three rood.

Chipping; not in MS. L.

An. [no] 1421, [an] Inst, [itution] to [the] Rect.[ory] of Chepyn

> Dedicated to St. Bartholomew. Value in 1834, £102. Eegiaters begin in 1660.

The Manor of Ohepyn was held by Bichard de Gliepvn shortly after the Gonqueet,
and about the 22d Edward III. John de Chepyn granted the homage and service of
thirteen Tassals to Bichard de KnoUe, in whose fisimily the Manor remained until the
7th Henry VIII. when Isabel, daughter and heiress of John KnoUe of Wolfhouse
and Chippendale, conyeyed it in marriage to Boger, third son of Bobert Sherburne of
Stonyhurst Esq. It was again acquired in marriage, in the year 1672, by William,
son of Sir John Weld of Compton Basset, and nephew and heir of Humphrey Weld
of Lulworth Castle Esq. with Elizabeth, sister and heiress of Sir Nicholas Sherburne;
and, by a recent purchase, has become yested in the Earl of Derby.

The Church existed before the 25th Henry III. ; and according to the Status de
Bloffhamihiref the Parish was separated from that of Whalley before the reign of
Edward the Confessor. The Adyowson remained in the Lacy &mily from the time
they became possessed of the district of Blackbumshire. It was given by the Crown

VOL. II.] 3 P

402 itotitia CtmittmiB.

upon Present, [ation] of [the] Crown^ in Bight of [the] Dutchy of
Lane. [aster.] Reg.[i8ter of] Archd.[eacon] Bowet, f. 11.

An.[no] 2 Edw.[ard] 6, Hecty let by Dr. Woolsett, Parson, Bp.
of Chester, Patron, and D.[ean] and Chap.[ter] of Chester, for 90
years, at a Bent of 25^ and 20 pence, to [the] Beet, [or,] during
his Life, after, [wards] to [the] Bp. Reff. [ister] of D. [ean] and
Chap.[ter,'] and Old Lease,
fSHlU. Wolfhouse,^ and Bradley.'

Ac||0oL ^^M ^ Pub. [lie] School here was built by Mr. John Brabine,
^^ and endowed by him (by Will dated 9th April 1683,) w^
[a] Sal.[ary] of 18i.6».8d, out of an Estate now let (1722,) for
20^ p.[er] an.[num,] but worth more, [now let for £68 a year ;]
the Surplus after [the] Master's Sal.[ary is] paid, is to buy books,
and coats, and caps, for y^ Poor Children of this Parish, who are
taught Free.

A Sal.[ary] of 4^ p.[er] an.[num] is given to an Usher, out of
a tenem* [left] for 200 years by Ch.[ristopher] Parkinson, (by

to the See of Chester in the year 1541, and the Patronage of the Yicarage la atfll with
the Bishop of Chester. The present Church was partly rebuilt in the year 1520 ;
and re-seated in 1706. The East end of the South Aisle forms a Chapel, called
** Wolfhouse Quire," formerly the sepulchral Chapel of the Sherbumes, and now
belonging to the Earl of Derby. In the year 1650 the Parish was returned as an
Appropriation of the Bishop of Chester, but the Tithes, worth £85. 6b. a year,
were then under sequestration ; and Mr. John Kinge, an able Divine, had £10 per
annum formerly paid out of the Bishop's reserved rent, and £50 per annum firom
the Committee of Plundered Ministers. — Fori. I»q. LamJb. lAbr, yoL iL

There is a curious polygonal Font in the Church with some characters akin to
Bunic upon it, an account of which Whitaker states was inserted in the GfenUenum^t
Magazine for 1772, p. 588 ; but no such account will be found there. — Mutoiy of
WhdUey^ p. 465.

' Wolfhouse was formerly the residence of the Manerial owners, and was rebuilt by
the Sherbumes, in the year 1601. The Hall has been taken down, and a &rm-houae
built. It now belongs to the Earl of Derby.

* Bradley Hall, in the 17th Edward I. was in the possession of Bobert de Bradley,
and continued in the same fionily for several generations. It was purchased in the
year 1666 by Charles, the eighth Earl of Derby, and still remains in that noUe
family.

Beanerji of Jlmottn9eniei»0« 403

Wm dated 8th July 1702;) Remaining, 167 years, (1722.) He
has likewise 10> p.[er] an. [nam, the] Int.[ere8t] of 10^ left by
Rob.[ert] Winder.

[The] Master is nomi. [nated] by [the] Trustees of Mr. Brabine.

tXt is an Alms-house built by Mr. Brabine, and endowed ftlnuf'fioiulf ,
w* an Estate let for 24^ 'lO" p.[er] an.[num,] for six poor
people, who have 5" [now 128. and coal] apiece every month.

Given by y« said Mr. Brabine an Estate let for 8^ p.[er] an. €^ititi.
[num, now let for £45 a year,] for putting out Poor Scholars,
taught in Chipping School, Apprentices; and another Estate let
for 5^ p. [er] an. [num,] to such Poor as his Exec* think fit, out of
y« towns named by him.

Given to [the] Poor of Chipping by Tho. [mas] Parkinson, 20* ;
[by] Edw.[ard] Harrison, (in 1671,) 80^; [by] Edw.[ard] Helme,
(in 1691,) 61. 12».6d p.[er] an. [num,] from Land; [by] Hen.[ry]
Barnes, (by Will, in 1696,) 50^; [by] Ri. [chard] Partivants, 2
small cottages; [by] Ja.[mes] Bolton, 40^, to a Meeting-house,
but w"* y« door of liberty is shut, to poor Widows and Orphans.

To [the] Poor of Thomley, by H. Wilkinson, Iff; [by] Ri.
[chard] Lund al. Cragg, (in 1676,) 80^; [by] W™ Wright, a
Blacksmith, (in 1711,) 160^, to buy clothes; [by] Th.[omas]
Threlsall, 10^, to y^ same use.

^mi

AeitSliaWXt^ Certif.[ied] 89 • 10> • 00^] viz. Glebe -^^

Land, (six Acres,) 5^; Small Tyths, 29^; Tyth Pish, \,^ a,

10-; Surp.[Uce] Pees, 4^. I^;;; J; J; »

Christiana de Lyndesey quits all y« Claim she had to ^^' •• ®- •• ®

[the] Church of Cockerham, w^ y« Chap, [el] of EUell, •' Abbati g^ ::;::. ^

de pratis, Co. Leicest. an. '' Dodsw, MS.

1 Dedicated to St. Michael Value in 1884, £656. Begisten begin in 1696.
At the Domeeday Surrey, Ulf and Maohel held two carucates in Laaeadale and
Cocreham ; and soon afterwards, William de Lancaster, Baron of Kendal, Steward of

404 fijottHA ftentttenftifk

Cockerham^ val.[ue] 20 marks : patron^ Coll.[ege] of Leicester.
M8.L.

[A] Vicar [was] presented an. [no] I2th Eliz.[abethJ by virtue
of a grant from y® Qriieen. Inst.litution] B.\ook,'] 1. Pap. B.
[ook,"] p. 8.

An. [no] 1626, by grant from Will.[iam] Fisher. In8t.[ihUum
Book,'] 2, p. 76.

An. [no] 1627, Alice Brown, widow, presented as [the] true
Patron, p. 77.

An. [no] 1683, Roger Downes de Wordley Esq. presented as
[the] true Patron ; and a Faculty was granted by Dreden, Offi-
ciall Princ.[ipal] of Exempt, [ion from] Jurisd.[iction] of [the]
D.fean] and Chap.[ter] of Westm.[inster,] to [the] Bp. of Ches-
ter, to Institute and grant a Mandate of Induction to y^ Yicaridge
of Cockeram, w^in their jurisdiction. lb. p. 120.

Henry II. gave to the CaaoDs of Leicester, in alms, two canicates of land in Gokymm.
Whitaker recognizee in this donation the Manor and Advowson of Gockerham, Mrith
the Chapel of Elhale, which grant received the consent of William de Lancaster and
his wife Gundrada, and was confirmed by Henry II. The Manor was held by the
Abbot of St. Mary, Leicester, in the 29th Edward I. ; bnt the descendants of the
original grantor of the Manor and Church, did not entirely relinquish all their sup-
posed rights, for in a Suit at Lancaster, in the year 1320, between the Abbot and
Christiana de Lyndsay, or De Courcy, wife of Ingelram de Ghisnes, Lord of Courcy,
it was agreed that Christiana, for the good of her soul, and the soul of Ingelram,
should quitclaim all her right in the Manor and Church of Cockerham, and the
Chapel of Ellal, and that she should, moreover, maintain four Canons within the said
Manor. She reserved some claim, however, on the Manor, as in the time of Henry
VL her descendant, Philippa, Duchess of Ireland and Countess of Oxford, released
her claim, which she had on condition of finding certain Canons. The Manor, parcel
of the late Monastery of Frees in Leicester, was sold by the Crown, in the year 1&57,
to Thomas Calvert, in whose fiunily it remained in 1650. Before the year 1720 it
was vested in Colonel Francis Charteris of Hornby Castle ; and was sold by Lord
Wemys, about the year 1798, to Thomas Ghreene of Slyne, Anthony Atkinson^
John Dent, and Robert Addison, Esqrs. whose representatives are the present Mane-
rial owners.

The Church was probably founded by the first William de Lancaster. The preeent
edifice was rebuilt in the year 1814, with the exception of the castellated Tower. In
the year 1650 the Patron was John Calvert Esq. who was styled a Papist delinquent,
to whom the great Tithes were Impropriated conjointly with Mr. Bradshaw, another

Beanets of ISmimMttmnn* 405

One [Walter] Frost presented [Mr. John Winter] to this Vic.
[arage] last^ [in 1695;] but L^ Haversham claims the Presen-
tation. Waile^ an.[no] 1708.

Coll.[onel] Charteris^ (who has bought an Estate here,) pre-
sented the present Vicar, an. [no] 1722.

[The] Parish [is] divided into 8 parts, viz. Cockerham and CofDnif.
Thumham, Forton and Cleveley, and EUell.

4 Churchwardens, and 2 Chap, [el] wardens, chosen Can7, who
serve for y^ Districts wherein they inhabit. [The Parish Clerk is
chosen CanonicaUy, and his Salary is 4d. per house.]

Cock, [erham] Hall;^ Thum.[ham] Hall;^ EUell Grange.^ KaOUr.

tXtissL School, built an. [no] 1681, at y« charge of y« Town ^ct0oL
and neighbourhood; and at their charge repaired. Nothing

settled for a Master but y^ Int.[erest] of some small Legacyes.

He is chosen by y^ heads of y« Parish upon Exam.[ination] and

Papist delinquent, and were yalued at £116 a year. There was also a Yicarage-house,
with six and a half acres of Glebe, and Tithe of Salt, Wool, Lamb, Pigs, Geese, Hay,
Hemp, Flax, and small Tithes, and a composition rent from Thnmham Hall, of 6s.
a year. The profits were anciently £60 a year ; but in consequence of the decay of
Sheep, the Yicarage had been fiunmed in the year 1649 for £85 a year. Mr. Thomaa
Smith had been appointed Minister during the sequestration of Mr. William Galyert,
the Yicar, for delinquency. — Fori. Inq, Ltunb. Libr. toL iL

About the reign of Henry IL the Abbey of St. Mary de Pkstis established a Oell or
Priory here ; and in the 20th Edward I. the Prior of Cockerham occurs as an attestor
of Charters in the Register of St. Maiy of Lancaster. The Priory probably merged
in the parent house, as about the year 1477, John Calrert, farmer of the Manor and
Rectory, agreed to find food, drink, hay, and horse prorender, for one or two Csnonsy
and their serrants, during a week's stay in those parts. No vestige of the Priory
remains, nor is it named by Leland in the reign of Henry VllL

The Yicarage House was rebuilt in the year 1848.

Patrons — the Lords of the Manor.

* Cockerham Hall, the ancient Manor House^ existed in the year 1400.

> Thumham Hall was held in the year 1666 by Robert Dalton of Bispham Esq.
descended from Sir Robert de Balton living in the time of Edwaid HL father of Sir
John Dalton, who died in the year 1869, seised of the Manor of Bispham. On the
death of Robert Dalton Esq. in the year 169 , this Estate passed in marriage with
Elisabeth, his daughter and coheiress, (bom on the 16th of March 1668,) to William
Hoghton of Park Hall Esq. (bom in 1669,) whose eldest son, John, in the year 1710,

406 itotttta etMtitmin*

Approb.[ation] of y^ Minister; but no Order made to fix y« Right
of Election.

This [is] sd to be a Free School, w^ [a] Sal. [ary] of 7^ to [the]
Master. Present* an. [no] 1719.

An. [no] 1724, Certif.[ied] y* [the] Master receives only y« Int.
[erest] of 871.68. 8^; 50^ of w^^ was left by [the] Will of Tho.
[mas] Jackson, (of Crimbles, who died about 1694,) and is secured
upon Land (by Thomas Sherson of Lancaster junr. a Trustee under
the Will;) the rest is let to sev.[eral] persons, w**»out Security, as
34^ more, given formerly, was, w«^ is now lost. [The] School [is]
not free. Accf of Vicar, 1724.

>^ Certif.[ied] 1^; being Int.
[erest] of money left by Will.
8 m.[iles] iBrom [the] Par.[ish] Church.
Duly served by a Curate. V.[ide] Shireshead.
C^Ktititi. Ann Cawson, in 1669, gave 5s. a year to the Poor. William
Hynd, in 1698, gave 5s. a year to the Poor of Forton.

asffumed the surname and arms of Dalton, and was ancestor of John Dalton Esq. the
last heir male of the funilj, who dying on the 10th of March 1837, was suooeeded by
his two daughters. In the year 1823 the architectural character of the House, as it
existed in the time of Queen Elizabeth, was unhappily destroyed. The fine piotu*
resque ruins of Cockersand Abbey are situated upon the Estate, and the Chapter
House is the fiunily Mausoleum.

^ Ellel Grange was oonreyed, by purchase, to Richard Atkinson Esq. one of the
Lords of the Manor, and is now occupied by him.

^ Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834, £94. Begisters begin in 1594.

Alice, daughter and coheiress of Gbimbald de EUal, conveyed this Manor to Robert,
son of Sir Adam de Holland, in the reign of Henry III. ; and in the 11th Edward L
Robert de Holland prosecuted Henry de Lee for impounding cattle at EUaL The
Manor, however, was held by Marmaduke de Twenge, (a descendant of the House of
Lancaster,) at his death in the 10th Edward II. ; and in the 9th Heniy YI. Thomas
de Twenge appears to have been the Lord. The chief Manor was, however, vested in
the Grown in the time of Edward lY. as that King demised it to Thomas Molyneux,
for a term. It was held by Sir James Laurence in the 16th Henry YII. ; but the

Beatiers of 9lmottn9en»00* 407

l,»Certif.[ied]li.2i.0d,
Int. [erest] of money left by Will.

3 m.[ile8] from [the] Par.psh] Church.

Dnly served by y« same Curate as officiates at EUell^ who, in
Summer, preaches at both Chappells, ey.[ery] Sunday, and in
Winter, ev.[ery] other Sunday at each.

This Chap.[el] was in y^ hands of y« Dissenters for some time,
but recovered from y™ by [the] D. [uke of] Hamilton, and Mr.
Richmond, then Vicar of Garstang, as Mr. Bichmond informed
me, an. [no] 1720.

12» p.[er] an.[num] was formerly paid to this Chap, [el] by y«
Fam.[ily] of y^ G^rards; but y^ heiresse of that Estate, since her
marriage to [the] D.[uke of] Hamilton,^ hath withdrawn it.

Estates are now chiefly Fteehold, and the Manorial rights are nominal, although
claimed by the late John Fenton Cawthorne M.P.

The Chapel, situate in Ghdgate, was in existence about the time of Henry 11. ; and
b named in the year 1477, in the Declaration of the Abbey of Leicester, that they
were not bound to provide Canons, or Secular Chaplains, at Cockerham. In 1660
there was no endowment; but Mr. Peter Atkinson, the Minister, had £50 a year
allowed him by the Committee of Plundered Ministers. — Pari. Inq. Lcunb. Libr,
ToL ii The present edifice of stone was rebuilt about the year 1809, and a Parsonage
House erected in 1840.

The Vicar of Cockerham appoints the Curate.

1 Patron Saint unknown. Yalue in 1884, £98. BegiBters begin in 1829.

The Township of Clereley is partly in Cockerham, and partly in 6hurstang ; and the
Chapel called '* Shireshead" or " Shire-side Chapel," was in existence in the early part
of the sixteenth century. Harrison, in the year 1577, names the Wire running by
Shireshead ChapeL In 1650 it was returned as *' Shire-side Chapel, with no certain
maintenance," to the knowledge of the Parliamentary Inquisitors, Mr. John Eisher
being the Minister. It was rebuilt of stone in the year 1800.

The Yioar of Cockerham nominates the Curate.
. ' James, fourth Duke of Hamilton, and first Duke of Brandon, and Baron Dutton
in the Peerage of England, K.G. was bom in the year 1658, married twice, his second
wife being Elisabeth, sole daughter and heiress of Digby, Lord Qerard of Bromley.
Grace was killed in a duel with Lord Mohun, in 1712^ aged fifty-fi>ur.

408

itotftta ftestmtifito.

ifr £, 8. d.
t/ •...14.03. 04

M. T. Corp.
Byn... 0. 8. 8
ItL... 0.13. 4

Fun.

Pap SSO

I»B8.M.Q.

«llta8:aiN«,» Certif.[ied] 7».10».00d, viz. Glebe 14»;

Great and Small Tyths at Claughton, 4/&'\0^'QO^;

Modus for Tyth-Hay, 1^; Ea8t.[er] Beckonings, 5*;

Surp.pice] Pees, 7K

Val.[ue] 121. Patr.[on, the] Ab.[bot] of Cokersand. MS,

Eb.[or.'] The Patronage of this Church was confirmed to the

Abbot by King John. DodsworWs M88.

This Church and 4 oxgangs of Land in Garstang, were given to
y* Abbey of Cockersand. MS. Eb.[or,'] Dug.[dale'8] Mon.[astu
con,"] V. 2, p. 681.

[A] Vicar [was] presented an. [no] 87 H,[enry] 8, by [a] grant
from [the] Ab.[bot] of Cockersand. InsLljUuHon] B,[ook,'] 1,
p. 28.

An. [no] 1609, Jam.[es] Anderton of Lostock Esq. Patron.
[Institution] J8.[oo*,] 2, p. 48.

Patrons, [in 1678,] Mr. Richmond, Rec.[tor] of Walton; Mr.
Bichmond, Rect.[or] of [a] med.[iety] at Leverpool; (both

> Dedicated to St. Helen. Yalue in 1884, £282. Begistera begin in 1567.

Soon after the Oonqnest, the Manor of Garstang was held by the Lancaatera,
Barona of KendaL In the Slst Henry HI. William de Lancaster died 8.p. leaTing
hia widow, Agnes de Bnu, dowable of this Manor, the inheritance descending to
Peter de Brus and Walter de Lindsey, his nephews and next heirs ; and on a diyision
of the Estate the Manor of Qarstang fell to the Lindseys. Christiana de Lindsey,
the heiress of this fiunily , married Xngelram de Ghisnes, Lord of Conn^, before the
80th Edward I. His eldest son, Xngelram de Qynes, was created Earl of Bedford in
the 40th Edward III. and in the 22d Biohard 11. devised his Estotes to Philippe^
Daohess of Ireland, who died s.p. : and it would appear that these Estates reverted
to the Duke of Lancaster, for John, Duke of Bedford, third son of Henry lY. and
Begent of France, who died in the 14th Henry YI. held the moiety of Netherwires-
dale Manor, in the Township of Qairstange. The Manor was, however, parcel of the
possessions of Cockersand Abbey ; and William de Lancaster, Steward of Henxy IL
gave to the Monks four bovatee of Umd in Gantang, and the whole demesne of For-
t<me^ with hoosebot and haybot for their tenants in Qarstang, and notwithstanding
all the sab£radatory Lords of the Manor, the Abbot and Convent appear to have held
the fee : and on the Dissolution, the Crown, on the 16th of May 1658, and in the 4th
and 6th Philip and Mary, rated the Manor for John Bygmaden. In the seventeenth

Beaners of JlmoitnlitnteiMi. 409

dead an. [no] 1722;) Mr. Silv. [ester] Bicliniond, and Bi. [chard]
Oughton^ Merchants at Leverpool.

[The] Glebe contains about 17 acres^ worth 18^ p*[er] an.[num]
dear, as Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1722, w^ Mr. Silv. [ester] Richmond
presented [Mr. Thomas Hayward, who died in 1731 J as true
Patron, being the only surrivour of those in whom y^ Bight of
Present, [ation] was rested.

[The] Glebe [consists of] 16 acres, [worth] 20^ p.[er] an.[nnm;]
Tyths, 40i.l0».00d; Surp.[liceJ Fees and East.[er] Dues, 20^ or
25^p.[er] an. [num.] Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1725.

The Church is about a mile from y^ Town, at one end of y^
Parish, "w^ is 7 m.[iles] long and 8 m.[iles] broad, one part w^
another, and pretty populous.

Some of y« Towns, [hips] are 4, [and] some 5 and 6 m.[iles] CofDtuf* ll.
from [the] Par.[ish] Ch.[urch.]

Lady Standish, a Papist, [is the] Improp.[riator] of six Town-
ships, and Mr. Butler of y® other four.

century, tbe Crown leased the Manor to the Hon. William Spenoer third son of
William, Lord Spencer, whose descendant and heiress, Elizabeth, daughter of Digbj,
Lord Gherard, married James, Earl of Arran, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, who
died in the year 1712. On the death of Donglas, eighth Duke of Hamilton, B.p. in
1799, he was succeeded by his unde. Lord Archibald Hamilton, on whose death in
1819 ihe Titles and Estate^ including the Constablewick of Garstang, descended to
his son, the present Duke of Hamilton, Brandon, and Chatelherault.

The Lease of the Manor obtained by Mr. Spenoer expired in 1736, when the Manor
of Garstang was sold, by Act of Parliament, to Sir Edward Walpole^ whose descend-
ant, Frederick Walpole Keppel Esq. is the present owner.

The Church was in existence in the time of Henry IT. ; and m the 6th John, a
question arose whether or not it was a Chapel dependent on the Church of St.
Michael upon Wyre, and Gilbert lits Beinfrid, the son-in-law of William de Lan-
caster, gained the action, it appearing that Gantang had always been a mother and
not a filial Church. Notwithstanding this decision. Dr. Whitaker thinks that Ghr-
stang had been originally detached from the Saxon Parish of St. Michael's. King
John, in the year 1215, confirmed the grant of the AdTOwson by Gilbert Fits Beinford
to the Monastery of Cockersand. In 1291 the Church was Talued at £26. 18s. 4d.
At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Living was sold by the Crown, and in the
1st Elizabeth, 1568, Christopher Anderton Esq. was the Patron. It has since fre-
quently changed owners, and has been since the year 1766 in the &mily of the Be?.
James Pedder MJL the present Vicar.

VOL. II.] 8 O

410 fiMUU ftetttrtemfo*

[The] Par.[ish is] divided into 4 Quarters; Oarstang^ Claugh-
ton, Wiresdall, [and] Bamaker^ (besides Pilling w*^n Garstang
Quarter^) for -w^ serve 4 Churchwardens : Sidesmen 24.
IUbM. Wedicar,^ Orenehalgh/ Winmerleigh/ and Eirkland.^

HidtUmlr ^1^ ttt [Grammar] School of Garstang [was] endowed w**» 100^,
*cft00L ^^ ^^^^ ^y ^^Yie] Pam.[ily] of [the] Butlers. [It is] an an-
dent School, built by y« Inhab.[itantsJ the ground upon w«*^ it
stands being given by one of y^ Butlers of Kirkland, who are
Lords of y« Manour. No endowment but [the] Int.[erest] of
[the] above named 100^.

V.[ide] Nom.[ination] 1688, by Eliz.[abeth] Gerard, in right
of y« Manour-house of Wedacre. Pap. Reg.

*^12it\i Febr. 1571, the Crown granted the Bectoiy and Tithes of Ghrstang, for
21 years, to Jane Kitchen, widow, paying yearly to the Curate of Garstang a stipend
of 40* out of the aforee<* Beotory."— Par<io«2ar« of Leases in the Amffmantaium QffSee^
LancasMrey Boll 2, No. 84. Ducarel's Eepertortfy Lamib, lAbr.

There is a Chantry within the Church in the South Aisle, founded in the year 1522,
and called the '* Lady ChapeL" The North Chancel belongs to Charles Standish Esq.
tha Impropriator. The North Aisle was the ancient burial place of the Bntlers of
Eirkland : their fiunily vault is now situated in the South-East Aisle.

The Church is singularly placed in the Township of Xirkland, a mile and a half
from the town, and in that part of the Parish called Ghvstang Church Town. In
1650 the Parliamentary Inquisitors found that the Patron was Christopher Anderton
of Lostock Esq. a Papbt delinquent, bnt that the Tithes were Impropriated to Sir
Bobert Bindloss Bart, and worth £318 a year. The Vicarage-house and Glebe were
yalued at £8 a year, and Stoythouse tenement ^ set at £17 per ann. and now worth 20
markes per ann. but detayned from the Min' by John Qreenwood of Lancaster, upon
pretence of a Lease for a term of years, yet in being, made by Dorothy Wildbore^ wife
of the late Biin', a Delinq*, to the use of Ann Boote his kinswoman, who is now wife
of the s' John Greenwood, so that a yearly rent of 10* only is reo^ out of the same by
the Min' of Garstang. The whole Yicarage is worth three score pounds per ann. and
Mr. Christ' Edmundson is the diligent and painful Min'." — Por^. Jug. Ltmb. Ubr,
ToL ii

In the 4th Edward II. a Charter was granted lor a Market and Fair to the Abbot
of Cockersand ; and the town was Incorporated in the year 1818. The Charter waa
surrendered to Charles II. who granted a new one in 1680, by which the gOTenanent
is Tested in a Bailiff, and seven " gentlemen burgesses," who are self elected, and who
choose the Bailiff.

' Wedacre, or Woodacre Hall, was the ancient Manor-house of Banuuve, held in

Beaners of nmouMttmfin* 41 1

Nominat. [ion vested] in certain Feoffees^ [the] Yic.[ar] alwayes
one. Certif.[ied] 1721.

An. [no] 1602^ 100 marks [were] given by [the] Admin, [istra-
tors] of WaL [ter] Rigmayden of Wedacre^ to be y« first foundat.
[ion] of a Free School to be erected in y^ Ghnrch Yard of Oars-
tang. MS. Hulm. 47, 48.

An. [no] 22 Jac. 1^ [An] Inquis.[itiou was held] about money
Given to [the] Free School and Parish of Grarstang. lb. 98,
16, 41.

»ttt by Mr. [William] Bailton, (in 1679,) some Lands charge- C^KvitM,
able w**^ 2^ • 10" p. [er] an. [num J to [the] Poor of Garstang ;
21- 10" to Catterall; and 5^ to Bamacre cmn Bond, all in the
Parish of Garstang.

[Left by John Caton, in 1720, dS40; by Christopher Caton, in
1721, £40; and Elizabeth Caton, in 1728, £80; by Margaret
Blackburn of Scorton, in 1718, £100.]

ih6 87th Edward HL by Thomas de Bigmayden. It passed with Margaret, daughter
of John Bigmayden of Wedaere, to William Butler of Kirkland Esq. and was pos-
sessed in the serenteenth oentuiy, by John ¥jfe Esq. who married Ann, daughter
of John Butler Esq. From this fiunily, Uyjng here at the beginning of the present
oentury, it passed to the Gerards, and now belongs to the Duke of Hamilton. The
house has been rebuilt, and is modem.

s Qreenhalgh Castle was built by Thomas, first Earl of Derby, by lioenoe dated at
Lancaster, August 2d, in the 6th Henry YII. authorizing him to embattle and fortify
his house^ and to make a Park. Camden says that the Earl bmlt this Castle while he
was under apprehension of danger from certain of the nobility of this county, who
had been outlawed, and whose Estates had been giren him by Henry YII. for they
made sereral attempts upon him, and many inroads into his grounds. — GKbson's
Camden, p. 975. The Castle was surrounded by a circular moat, and garrisoned by
James, Earl of Derby, for the Eling, in the year 1648. It was dismantled in 1649 or
1660, and little of it now remains. This Qreenhalgh is to be distinguished from ano-
ther place of the same name in the Parish of Bury, which was the original residence
of the Qreenhalghs' of Brandlesome.

* Winmerleigh, or Wimmersley, became the property of Bichard de BaddyiFe in
the time of Edward m. and passed with his descendant Anne, niece of William
Badcliffe, to Sir Gilbert Gerard, by whose descendant it was sold to the Pattens of
Bank. — See Note, p. 819.

> Kirkland Hall is the seat of Thomas Butler Cole Esq. who, in the year 1816,

412 itotttta etfOKimnto.

%AililSUL,' IN YE Town. [A] li-
cence to [the] Inliab.[itants] of Gars-
tang to have Divine Service [performed] in [the] Chap, [el] of
Trinity in that Town, for one year, [was] granted by [the]
Archd.[eacon] of Bich.[mond,] an. [no] 1437. Reg. Bowett, f. 70.

Certif.[ied] that nothing at all belongs to it. It is supplyed by
y« Vicar. .

A small parceU of ground, formerly y« Chap, [el] yard, is now
built upon ; and y« building is so near y^ Chapel y^ 'tis a manifest
annoyance to it.

A^ooU* ^SSSi tXt is a free Gram, [mar] School, endowed w^ Lands and
MHUhaxc^* i^n Tenements worth about 14* p.[er] an.[num, by John Cross

of Myerscough, by Will dated 2d June 1718.]
loloer Here is a School, endowed w*** 40» p.[er] an.[num, by the Will

fmxttMnlt. of Robert Bourne, dated 18th June 1717; and with a further sum

of 80s. per annum, by the Will of Bichard Bourne, dated 5th Jan.

1721 ; and £40 by the WiU of Margaret Blackburn, in 1718.]

aBBumed the surname of Cole, haying suooeeded to the Estates of his great nnde,
Alexander Butler Esq. (Sheriff of Lancashire in 1767,) son of Thomas Butler Esq. and
of his wife Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Edmund Cole of Beaumont Cote Esq.
These Butlers are said to be descended from Richard Butler, third son of Sir John
Butler of Bawdiffe, (Sheriff of Lancashire in the 16th Bichard 11.) who married
Elizabeth, his cousin in the fourth degree, by licence of Pope Boni&oe IX. in the
12th year of his pontificate, 1401-2. — Ltmc. MS8. yoL ziii p. 112. The present
Manor House of Kirkland is a modem building.

1 Dedicated to St. Thomas. Value in 1834i, £d3. Begisters at the Mother Church.

There was formerly a stone in the Chapel inscribed — " This Chapel was built by
Bichard Longworth Esquire, Bailiffe, 1666 ;'* but it appears from the text to haye
been built upon the site of a much older foundation : and Bobert Beck of Manehester
Qent. by Will dated the 17th of December 1&66, gives ** to the ChappeU of Garstang,
towards y* bigging or making of Challis there, xri*. yiii<*." — Lane, M8S. yoL xiii. p.
282. In 1660 ''Garstang Market Town ChappeU" was reported to be two miles from
the Parish Church, without endowment, and the Inhabitants desired to haye a Parish
comprising fiye hamlets, with many hundred fiimilies in them ; but their sensible re-
quest was not granted. — Pari, Inq. Lamb. Libr, yol. ii. The present Chiqiel is a spa-

9tamxs of ftntottti&enieiift. 418

lUUENS.^ Certif.[ied] IIMS'-^,
viz. W, paid by [the] Iinprop.[riator]
in lieu of Small Tyths ; [and] l^- 18»«4*, by y« Crown. At y« time
of erecting y« old Chap, [el,] w^** was very ancient, and built at y«
confines of y« Town, upon y« East part of it, there were, accord.
£ing] to Tradition, but seven houses, besides y^ Manour House, in
j^ said Chappelry. The Inhab.[itant8] are now encreased to 140
Familyes, an. [no] 1716, as set forth in a Petition to y^ Bp. for
leave to Build a New Chap, [el] in y* middle of y« Town, w«^ was
granted, an. [no] 1717. Reff.[i8ter] J3.[ooA,] 4.

This Chappell was new built and consecrated an. [no] 1721,
when it was Ordered y* y« sdte of y* old Chap, [el] Yard, and
[the] ground whereon y« Chap, [el] stood, sh^ goe to y« use of y«
Minister, as well as j^ sdte of y^ new Chap, [el] and Yard.
V.[ide] Beg.[isier] B.[oo*,] 4.

dons brick edifice, with a Tower, and was boilt in 1770, by a sabscription fimd of
£616, raised by thirty-tbree anbacriben. The site was changed at that time, but the
Title being defectiye^ the Chapel was not ConBecrated. The Tower has since been
raised, and is ornamented by a spire. A Bnrial gronnd has been giyen by F. Walpole
Eeppel Esq. ; and fonner impediments baring been remoyed, the Chapel was Conse-
crated by the Lord Bishop of Manchester, on the 28th of December 1848.

> Dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Yalne in 1884, £124. Registers begin in
1710.

The Manor of Pilling was granted by King John in the year 1201 to the Abbey of
Cockersand; and at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, part of the possessions of the
Abbey were leased by the Crown to John and Robert Gardner of Pilling ; and in the
86th Henry Till, they were granted to John Kitchen of Hatfield in Herts. Esq. and
afterwards of Pilling Hall, whose daughter conyeyed them, by marriage, to Bobert
Dalton of Thumham. Frances, daughter of John Dalton of Thumham, who died in
the year 1777, transferred Pilling, in marriage, to Humphrey Trafibrd of Croston
Esq. The present reputed Manerial owners are, Edmund Hornby Esq. the owner of
PiDing Hall, John Gkodner Esq. and Daniel EUiotson Esq. who are also Patrons of
the laying.

The ancient Chapel is now a ruin. It was in existence in the years 1677 and
1696. '*An Order of Archbishop Abbot upon a reference from the Ejng touching
the Tithes of Pylling within the Bectory of Garstange^ and finding of a Curate there.
Dated Noy. 80, 1621. Beff. JJbhot, part 8, fol, 106, a, b. M88. Lamb." — Ducarel's

414 Hotttte enttrfnutiik

■ SS^ *''' " * ^'^^ School founded by Eob.[ert] Carter, an. [no
iSnQ 1710,] and endowed w**" Land worth ab' IT' p.[er] an.
[nnm;] <mt ot w^20' [is pud] to [the] Curate of Stalmine; 20>
to [the] Poor of Stalmine and Preesall; [and] 20> to [the]
TVturteea.

ttMRJ^fl^r' about dO^ p-[er] an.[num,] arising ont of
Small Tytha, Easter Beck. [oningB,] and Surp.[lice]
Fees, liiere is an old House w*"", w* Bam and Gar-
^_^_^__ den, may be worth 4', w* lesse y an Acre [Lancashire
4 measure] of Glebe belong, [ing] to it, [worth] 1'. The other pro-
fits were for many years let for Stf p.[er] an. [num.]
Improp. [riator] and Patron, Christchurch, Oxou.

Sepniory. In 1660 the Cluipel mae said to be eight milea from the Pariah Qiiinih,
isd witliOQt ft Uiniitar ; " 1>ut the same ui suppljed bj Mr. Lnmleye, who hmth been
iilmioed for terenll mindemeuioDrB." The InbAbitoats were rerj toaiiy, and bomblj
desired to hne a Pariah, with a Hiniiter, and ■ suitable «ndo«nnent for him. — Pari,
luq, Xoeii. Iiiir. toL iL The present Paroohial Chapel atandi near the Tillage, aaicl,
aooording to £ainea, " wae erected in 1717."

1 Dedicated to St. HiebeeL Valve in 18S4, £981. Begiiter Books begin in 1689.

The Hanor of EirUiam wee held bj Roger de Foicton in the rei^ of William I.
and mi granted bj ^itn with the Cbunh, to the Abbe; of Seee, ai ^tpurtenant to
tba Prior; of Lanoaster. In the 7th Richard I. the Adrowson, with ita af^nute-
nanoes, waa held b; the Abbe; of SS. Peter and Paul of Shrewibnr;, which granted
it in that ;car to Theobald Walter, reaerring tbe annual pension of twelve marks ont
of the rerenoe of tbe Chureh. King John having the wardahip of Theobald Waltea'*
heir, gare two parte of the Chnrcb of ifii-Vtoin to Simon Blund i and, in bia fifteenth
;ear, gnated die Chnroh to W. On;, Cbanoellor, for life. Bdward I. aftarwardi
claimed the Advowaon g bnt hia right waa reaisted b; 8if Theobald le Boliller, who
demanded it aa hia inheritance^ but finally admitted that the King waa the Patron,
qiparentl; in oonaeqnenoe of luTing eieroiaed the patronage. Sdwa^d L beetowed
it upon bis bvonrite Abbey of Vale Boyal in the year 1S81, a Bull baTing been ob-
tained for that pntpose from Honorius IV. (who occupied the Bee from 128G to 1888,
there baring been no Pope Honorius V. aa giren in the text, from the "Honaatiooik,")
by Sir Otto de Grandiaon, tbe ambaaaador at !Botno. In 1282 the King Inoorpo-

The Church of Kirchean or Kyrcham^ was given to the Priory
of Lancaster by y^ Founder. MS. JE6.[or.] Ihig.[dale^8] Man.
[asticon,'] y. 1^ p. 566.

An. [no] 8 Edw.[ard] 1^ Theobald le Boteler quitted all claim
to y* Advowson of this Church to y« King. Dods. [wortlfs] MS.

The Church of Kyrkham was given by Edw.[ard] 1, an. [no]
B.[egni] 9, to y« Abbey of Vale Royally and Approp.[riated] by
Pope Honorius 5.

An. [no] 1857, it was likewise Approp.[riated] to y* s^ Abbey
by John, Abp. of York, who Ordained y* y« Vicar should have 40
marks p.[erj an.[num] paid him by y« Convent, for w«*^ he sh^
bear all burdens ordinary and extraord.[inary.] MS. jS6.[or.]
Dugdale's M.[anastic(m,'] v. 1, p. 936.

This Town was Incorp^ by y^ name of y^ Burgesses of Kirkham.
[A] Market and Fair [was] granted by Edw. [ard] 4. Beff.[ister]
Xtch.[urch.']

rated the Town, although it never was a Parliamentary Borough, and oonfiimed a
Grant for a Market and Fair, to be held by the Abbot and Conyent of Yale Eoyal,
within their Manor of Kirkham. Thia latter grant was afterwards again confirmed
by Charter dated the 14th Edward lY. and by Letters Patent in the 2d and 9th
Sliaabeth. The Church was valued at £160 in 1291, being the laigest living in
the Arohdeaoonry of Chester. Cardinal John Thoresby, Archbishop of York and
Lord Chancellor, made a new Ordination of the Yicarage of Kirkham, dated Oawode
near Selby, the 20th of November 1857, and decreed that the Church should not be
aerved by a secular Yicar as hitherto, but by a member of the Monastery of Yale
Soyal, who should have a fixed and permanent salary, as stated in the text. In 1887
the Yicar of Kirkham obtained a pardon firom the Duke of Lancaster for maladmin-
istfition in his office of Dean [Bural] of Amoundemess. There was a Chantry in
the Church, dedicated to the Blessed Yirgin, in 1586.

On the Dissolution of Monasteries, the Manor and Advowson were granted by
Henry Vlll. to the Dean and Chapter of Christchurdi College, Oxford, in which
Corporation they are still vested. The fiuuily of Clifton of lytham are the Lessees
of the Manor.

The Church was partly rebuilt in the sixteenth century, as appears by the arms and
name of Cuthbert Clifton Esq. who died in the year 1586^ still remaining carved in
stone. In 1660 the Patronage was returned as being in Christchurch College^ Oxford,
to which College the Tithes were appropriated, and then in Lease to Thomas Clifiion
Bsq. a Papist delinquent, under an uncertain yearly rent to the College, rising or
fiiUing according to the price of com or grain sold in the market at Oxford. The

^ 416 litotftia enttitumin.

CfrtDinl. Towns 15^ not including [the] Chap, [dry] of Croosnai^lij Kirk-
ham^ Medlar cum Wesham^ Greenall cum ThisUeton^ Ecdeston
Par.[ya] cum Larbreck^ 3 Singletons^ ma[jor^ niin.[or; and]
Grange, Hambleton, Treils, [TrealesJ Rosacre, and Wbooles,
[WliarlesJ Clifton cum Salwick, Newton cum Scales, Freckleton,
Warton, Bryning cum Kelamore, [Kellamergh,] Bigby ats Bibby
cum Wray, Westby cum Plumptons, Weeton cum Frees.

4 Churchwardens [are] chosen by j^ Vicar and thirty men, who
represent y« Parish ; one yearly out of Treab or Weeton ; one out
of Clifton cum Salwick ; one out of Westby cum Plumpton ; [and]
the other out of the remaining Townships.

Particular of y« Townships in y^ Wapentake of Amound.[er-
ness:] 14 TownsP* in ELirkham par.[ishj viz. Eirkham, Bibby,
Wray, Compton and Walton houses, Warton, Freckleton, Westby,
Plumpton major, Plumpton minor, Weeton, Priests, [Prees,] Mer-
hope, and Smarthy Lake, Singleton major, Sing.[leton] minor.
Singleton Grange, EcclestonPar.[ya,] WeUs, [and] Larbreck.

Thistleton, Greenhall, East-break, Comey-row, Medlar, West-
ham, Mobreak, Broadkirk, Treils, Bozeaker, and Wharles.

Tithes of Eocleston Parra omn Larbreck were in the posseBsion of Pennington
Whalley Esq. in right of Miurgaret his wife, late widow of Cnthbert Clifton Gent,
son and heir of the said Thomas Clifton, hj assignment from the said Mr. Clifton,
some years then in being, and worth £96. 16s. 8d. a year. There was a Ticarage
House and three roods of Land in Kirkham, and the proceeds were formerly worth
£80 per annum. Mr. Edward Fleetwood was the Minister, and the Inhabitants were
to lead him one hundred loads of turves yearly, by composition, and he had £50 a
year allowed by the Committee of Plundered Ministers. — Park Inq, Lamb. Idbr.
YoL iL In 1822 the greater part of the Church was taken down, rebuilt and enlaiged,
the old Tower and parts of the Chancel being undisturbed. In 1846 a Tower, with a
spire one hundred and fifty feet high, was added.

In the year 1694, Mr. Clegg, the Vicar of Kirkham, reoeiTod from the liTing £00
a year ; in 1740, Mr. Dixon reoeived £100 a year ; and in 1774, Mr. Shuttleworth
reoeired £160 a year, exclusiye of the rents of houses and glebe. — Jfifm. Sy 7%oma9
LamgUm of Eirkham JStq,

In the year 1814^ the modus paid by the Parishioners for Small Tithes, amounted
to £260 a year; but in that year they were advanced, with the consent of the
Parishioners, to £1,000; and in 1888, a further advance was made of £600, making
the present aggregate annual amount £1,600. — Baines's Butory qf LameaMn^
vol. iv. p. 886 Note.

9tmtvs of tLxMuvlUtvmM. 417

Clifton and Salwick.

Bryning and Kalemargh; Newton and Scales: Besides the
Chappelryes. Beg.lister] Xtch.[urch,]

Westby,^ Prees,^ Middleton/ and Singleton.* *«».

ttt is a School^ Free to y« whole Parish^ Founded by Isabel A4ooL
Birley^ in the reign of Queen Elizabeth^ and afterwards anew

In a Petition presented by Lord Stanley from the Parishioners to the House of
Commons on May the 18th 1835, it was stated that there were seventeen Townships
in the Parish, with a popidation of twelve thousand souls, scattered oyer an extent of
country comprehending a space of one hundred and thirty miles, not fewer than eight
of these Townships being, at that time, without any means of religious instruction, —
and in one direction, a space of twelve miles ATi«fa'ng without the intervention of any
place of public worship whatever. A very much better Ecclesiastical provision
exists at the present time.

* Westby was held by William, son of Henry de Clifton, in the 20th Edward I.
and Westby Hall is now the property of Thomas Clifton of Lytham Esq. The
house has undergone many alterations, and is occupied by a farmer ; adjacent to it is
an ancient Boman Catholic Chapel, now in ruins.

' Prees was held under the Earl of Lincobi in the time of Henry m. by William
de Prees. The Manor was in the £sauily of the Skillicomes in the time of Henry
Vlll. who appear to have retained it until the seventeenth century. Lucas relates
that the Manor House and some outbuildings were burnt down in the year 1782, and
a loss sustained amounting to £1,872, to repair which a Brief was granted. Prees
Hall is now the property of Hugh Hornby of Liverpool Esq.

* Middleton Hall was a seat of the ancient fiunily of Singleton, descended from
Alan de Singleton living in the time of King John. His descendants were here in
the fifteenth century ; and were followed by the lUgbys, and, on the death of Gleneral
Bigby, the Estate passed to the present owner, Townley Bigby Shaw of Preston Esq.

* Singleton Hall, sometimes called Gingle Hall, in Whittingham, was held by Tho-
mas Syngleton Oent. in the reign of Henzy Y III. ; and the Estate was conveyed by
Anne, daughter and heiress of John Syngleton Esq. in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
to William, son of Evan Wall of Preston Esq. whose son Anthony Wall Esq. inhe-
rited Singleton Hall, in right of his mother, in the year 1567. His descendant,
Nicholas Wall Esq. a Barrister, dying in 1763, without male issue, the Estate passed,
in 1777, with Anne, his daughter and heiress, to Joshua Marriott of Busholme Esq.
whose only child, Elizabeth, married in 1801, Thomas Holme Maude Esq.

* This School existed in the year 1685, and was vested in the " thirty men," who
appear to have been an elective Town Council, in right of the whole Parish. From a
MS, History of the School, referred to by Mr. Baines, it appears that " Isabel Birley,
wife of Thomas Birley, bom in Xirlihain, daughter of John Coulbron, an ale house

VOL. II.] 8 H

418 ilotttta etf^ttitmin.

by Mr. Hen.[ry] Colbome^ of Lond.[on, scrivener, a natiTe of
Elirkham, and there edncated in his youth,] by [a codicil to his]
Will dat. [ed 7th Aug.] an. [no] 1655, who gave to y* Chief Mas-
ter, 451 p.[er] an.[num;] to [the] second Master, 1©«10"; and to
an Usher, 8^ p. [er] an. [num ;] all paid by [the] Drapers' Comp.
[any,] Lond.[on,] who nominate y^ Masters : v.[ide] Elect, [ion]
of a Master by Court of Assistants, w^ a Bond to resign upon 6
months' warning, an. [no] 1701. Pap, Reg.

[The] Writings are in y® hands of the Vicar and Bailifls.

The Second Master has 10^ P*[er] an. [num] more, given by
(the Will of) Mr. Jam. [es] Barker,^ Clerk ; and [the] Int. [erest]
of 55^, given by Isab.[el] Birley.

[The] Writings for Mr. Barker's Gift, (who was a native of
Eirkham,) are in y« hands of Trustees; who give alsoe 12^ p-[cr]
an. [num,] for maint.[aining] at [the] Univ.[ersity] one poor
Scholar, Bom in this town, and sent from this School.

keeper all her life, and who, through that employment, attained to a good personal
Estate, being moyed hj a natural compassion to poor children, haying got a good
stook of monej into her hands, repaired to the Church, in 1621, where the SO men of
the Parish being assembled, with £30 in her apron, telling them that she had brought
that money to give towards the erecting of a Free Sohool for poor children ; wishing
them to take it as men especiallj trusted for the common benefits of the Church, and
therefore the most likelj persons to move their several Townships to contribute towards
the accomplishment of so charitable a work. The object was especially promoted by
Mr. John Parker of Bradkirk, an eminent man in the Parish, one of the Earl of
Derby's Gentlemen, and somewhat allied to the said IsabeL He tracked all the
Parish over to eveiy particular town and house, and whilst each Township contri-
buted, the principal donors were. Sir Cuthbert CUfton, who gave £20 ; Mr. Westby
of Moubriok, £10 ; Mr. Parker himself, £5 ; Mr. Langtree of Soarbriok, £5 ; Mr.
Hesketh of Manor, 40s. ; Mr. Arthur Gh^enacres, Vicar of Kirkham, £4^ &c. In
1628 Bishop Bridgeman appointed Feoflbes for the School, of which, a third were to
to be chosen by the town of Kirkham, and two-thirds by the Parishioners, — of which
feoffees Isabel Wilding's husband, (she appears to have married again,) and her heirs,
(because she gave £30 for the Schoolmaster's use,) to be one," The principal bene-
fSftctor, however, was the Bev. James Barker, who gave £600, with which, in 1678;
lands were purchased at Nether Methop in the county of Westmoreland, and sold,
under an Act of Parliament, in the 58d G^rge TIT, for £11,500.

7 Mr. Henry Colbome required the Head Master of the Sohool to preach monthly
a Lecture in the Mother Church, or in some of the Chapels in the Parish. This role

JBeaners of ftmounDetttem* 419

Here is a Charity School^ founded about 1708 by Mr. John ^doton cum
Hornby of this TownsP, [by WiU dated 24th May 1707.] The f ^|^'*^ ^^^
Master's Sal.[ary] is about 20^ P*[er] an.[nunij including his Hoifpital.
board. There are 10 Boyes and Girls clothed and maintained ;
and seT.[eral] other poor Children of y® s^ towns? have their Din-
ners upon all School Dayes. The Master is nominated by y*
Trustees " to teach the principles of the Protestant Religion^ to
read Prayers morning and evening to the Scholars^ and to take
them every Sunday to Church.^'

Joh[n] Hornby [was] buried an. [no] 1707. [The] Profits of
[the] Land given to this use amount to 90^ or 100^ P*[er] an.
[nuroj (1722.) [By a subsequent benefaction, the Income had
arisen in 1824, to about £500 a year. The whole gift amounted
to upwards of £2000.]

{Hen to [the] Poor of Kirkham by Mr. Colbom, 5^ • 10« CftwttW.

p.[er] an.[numj paid by [the] Drapers' Comp.[any;] by
Mr. Barker, (besides his other Gifts to the School,) 6^ p*[cr] an.
[num,] and 3^ p.[er] an.[num] for a Dinner for his Trustees.

Mr. Colbom ordered, by his WiD, the whole profits of y* Rec-
tory, (except 100^ P«[er] an. [num] to his son,) for 16 years, to be
laid out {or maintaining one or more Ministers, who, besides
Preaching in y« Parish, sh^ look after such School, or Schools, as
were provided by his Trustees out of y« profits of such Lands as
were purchased by y™ out of y« income of y« Rectory. V. [ide]
Lease from Xtch.[urch,'] an.[no] 1655.

WSB oboerved hy the Ber. Zacharj Taylor, tbe Master in 1680, and whose widow,

AbigaO, (dangliter of Ward,) administered to bis effects, at Chester, on the 9th

of September 1692. — Mem. of Moehdale Oram, School^ p. 30, 1845. His daughter
Elieabei^h, suoried, on the lOth of August 1689, Cornelius Laogton of Kirkham £sq.;
and his son, the Bev. Zachary Taylor M.A. Rector of Croston, married Barbara^
daughter of Sir Edward Stanley of Bickerstaffe Bart.

* The Be7. James Bariter, Rector of Thrandeston in the county of Suffolk, gare,
by Will, £600, to found an Exhibition at Eirkham School ; but, with the exception
of a km small kgaeies to i«ivate friends, this appears to be the only bequest mentioned
in his Will, which was dated 1670. The Exhibition is now worth upwards of £80

400 itotftia ffevstrfemiii.

[In 1641; Bicliard Brown gave 20s. a year to the Poor. In
1657, Ellen Bonlton gave £10. In 1658, John Bonlton gave £40.
In 1664, Robert Whalley gave £1, '^instead of a Dole at his wife's
Burial/' to the Poor. Mr. Richard Clegg,^ Vicar, gave £12 in
1670, for a Sermon to be preached on Easter Tuesday, and for
Loaves for the Poor. Mrs. Clegg, his widow, gave £20.]

ctfjan.vat. |» ee&mvnvi^m,^ certif.[ied] 191.

ftugin* Ih 18". 00^, paid out of y« Tyths. The

Fun. ancient Stipend was S^-IS^'O*, of w«^ 2^«15»«4* [was] paid by y*

[above iizteen.] Lessee for Gkx)senargh, and li«2»«8^ by [the] Lessee for Whit-
tingham; but some time after y« Restoration, the D.[ean] and
Chap.[ter] of Xtch.[urch] obliged y« Lessee for Gk)Osenai^h to
pay y* Curate 16^ p.[er] an.[num] more.

The Curate has no House, nor any Land but y Chap, [el]
yard.

The chief of [the] Inhab.[itants,] who are called the 24, pretend
sometimes to nominate y^ Curate; but the Bight is in the Vicar.

An. [no] 1611 there was an agreement made between the Inhab.

[itants] of Ooosnargh and Whittingham conc.[eniing] the share

each townsP should pay tow.[ards] the repair of y« church and

chancell. Reg.[i8ter] B.[ooky} 2, p. 89.

Cofottf.d. Gkx)8n. [argh,] Whittingham, and Neusham. Gk)Osenargh is

per snninn, and is applied to the maintexumce of a poor Scholar id the UniTeraitj' of
Cambridge or Oxford, bom at Kirkham, and educated in the School there.

' A ridicnlouB epitaph on Mr. Harrison, a Nonconformist Minister, is attributed by
Baines to Mr. Clegg, the Vicar of TCirkham, (see Not. Cettr. roL iL p. 168, Note 9,)
^' whose animosity" the historian obserFes, ** pursued his Puritanical fellow-labourer
beyond the grave." The fcust appears to be that the doggrel in question was the
harmless e£EVision of an obscure poet, and written in chalk, a few years sinoe^ on a
graTe-stone in the Church-yard.

1 Dedicated to St. Mary. Value in 1884, £97. Begisters at Eirkham.

Gusansarghe and Neuhouse, each contained one Carucate at the Conquest; and
passing through variouB owners, the former was in the possession of Sir William de
Clifton in the 14th century, and Thomas de Clifton, who died in the year 1448, set-

SMttets of flmomiDettiefttt. 421

diTided into Six Tytheryes, yiz. Church Tythery, Beesley, Kid-
mape^ Longley^ Aspinhurst^ and Threlfull. Whittingham^ into
Higher end^ and Lower end; the Higher into two parts^ Asley
and Cumbrat. [There are] 4 Churchw. [ardens ;] 2 to Goosen.
[argh] cum Newsham, [and] 2 for Whittingham.

tl y^ lower side of Ooosenargh is a School, Founded (about i^d^ool.

1678,) by one [Thomas] Threlfall [of Whittingham,] who
endowed it w** Lands, Tal.[ued at] about 7^ P-[er] an.[num,]
taught in a dwelling-house purchased w*^ money given by Tho.
[mas] Waring of Lond.[on,] for a Free School. Augmented
since with 25^ p.[er] an.[num] given by Hen.[ry] Colbom of
Lond.[on, and] paid by [the] Comp.[any] of Drapers there; who
nominate y* Master, together w*^ y« 24 of y* Chappelry of Goos-
nargh, on account of Threlfall's Gift. [Laurence Parkinson be-
queathed £20, in 1719.]

iben to y« Poor by one Knowles of Sowerby, (in 1686,) 60^ e^Kxmti.
p.[er] an.[num,] charged upon Lands in Goosnargh; by
Wil.[liam] Higham, 20 p.[er] an.[num,] to buy books for chil-

tled it on his son James ; and, in the 9th Henij YIII. William Clifton Esq. held the
sixth part of a knight's fee in Goosnargh. The Township is now in severalties.

The Ghapefary contains the hamlets of GK>osnargh, Whittingham, and Newsham ;
and the Chapel is of considerable antiquity. In the North Aisle is the Middleton
Choir, in which is an arch for the founder's tomb, and three chevronels, being the
anns of Singleton. There are also the initials of a Bigby. A Chantry was restored
here in 1558 ; and, according to tradition, a second was shortly afterwards added.
In 1650 the Parochial Chapelry of Qoosnargh was returned as being ten miles from
the Parish Church, without any allowance, save £50 per annum from the Committee
of Plundered Ministers, which was paid to Mr. Ingham, a diligent Minister there.
The Township was said to be yery popidous, and so fiir remote from the Mother
Church that the Inhabitants desired their Chapelry to be made a distinct and sepa-
rate Parish. — FarL Inq, Lamb, JAbr, Dr. Whitaker deems the present edifice a
restoration of the reign of Henry YIII. In 1715 it was repaired ; and on the lead of
the Tower, is this inscription : " Ghilielmus Byshell, Sector Eoclesis de Heysham et
hujus Minister, 1715." It was enlarged in 1778 ; and a Parsonage House has been
built. The Incumbent is appointed by the Dean and Canons of Christ Church,
Oxford.

422 ftotitia etnttitnnisi.

dien tatiglit in White-Chap. [el;] by one [John] Parkinson^ [in
1676^ Lands in Newsham, now worth] 4^ p*[eT] an.[num,] to
bind oat Apprentices; by Christ. [opher] Helme, 4^ p*[er] an.
[nmnj for poor householders ; by Laur.[ence] Parkinson^ 2 closes,
[worth] 80" p. [er] an. [numj and [the] Int. [erest] of 7(fi, to be
laid out in Com called Groats, yearly, for poor householders who
receiye nothing from [the] Town. [ship;] and [the] Int. [erest] of
80^ to y* like poor Househ.[olders,] in Loaves, (viz. six penny
loayes every Sunday,) who come to Church, and for want of such
Poor to y« like Poor of Whittingham; 4^'&* p.[er] an.[num,] by
Tho. [William] Waring, (in 1691,) upon Lands in Whittingham^
41 of ^ to [be given to] poor Householders there, and 5" for a
Dinner for [the] Min.[ister] and Churchw. [ardens] who distri-
bute it; by Hen.[ry] Colbom, 6^ p.[er] an.[num] to [the] Poor
of Ooosenargh cii Neusham and Whittingham, p^ by [the] Dra-
pers' Company.

^ ^ ^OlK «l*»l'*2f«W Certif.[ied] lli.05».

(ITpap^Var. ^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^ Lan^ containing 17

Acres, 8i.l5».00d; [and the] Int. [erest] of 50i, 21.10».

Certif.[ied] by [the] Curate an. [no] 1705, 5^ p.[er] an.[num,]
given by S' Nich.[olas] Sherboum out of y^ profits of a Windmill;
[there is] preaching there one Afternoon in 3 Sundays. Ptg^. Reg.

1 Dediotttod to tho Blessed Yirgin Mary. Value in 1884, £102. Begirten at
KirVhani.

The Manor of Hamelton appears to hare been given by King John to Qalfrid, siir-
named Balistarius, or L'iLrbalastier, who derised it to his grandson, Bobert de
Shyrebum by whom it was held in 46th Henry III. ; and it appears from the TeHa
de NnilP^ that Geoffrey, aneestor of the fihirebnnies, hdd the Manor by the serrice
of two arbaksta, or cross-bows, whence his snmaoie. In the 46th Henry m. tho
Manor was heid by John de Haounesho, clearly a son of Bobert de Shirebnr»e.
In this fiunily it oontmued until oonyeyed by marriage, with the heiress of the Shei^
bumes, to tho fiunily of Weld. The present Manorial owner is Joseph Weld of
Lttlw<»rth in the county of Dorset Bsq. brother of Oardinal Weld.

The preeiae date of the foundation of the Chapel has esci^ted the notice of all the
local historians. It is placed in Sazton's Map in 1677. In 1660 it was returned as

jBeanets of AtiumitBenieM* 428

This Chappell was Consecrated an. [no] 1667^ and was stiled
" Hambleton^ ais Embleton^ or our Lady's Chappell -" and it was
ordered y* y« Pacnlty or Licence to Admin, [ister] y« Sacr. [ament]
and Bury^ should be read in the Chappell every 8 years. Rey.
[ister] B.[ook,'] 1, p. 408, 5.[oo*,] 2, p. 281.

6 m. [iles] from [the] Par. [ish] Church ; duly served by a Cu-
rate, who preaches and reads prayers every Sund.[ay,] Sacrament
dayes excepted. In [the] Act of Consecration [it is] said to be 7
m.[iles] from [the] Par. [ish] Church.

fr VitfttiM Siltnbuxn gave, in 1706, £2 per annum to the e^nits*
Poor.

itS9i2r saafeixeev.'^

]

being ten mileB firom Kirkham Chtirch, and diyided from it by tbe Biyer Wyre. The
Inhabitants desired that their Ghapeby might be made a Parish, and haye the Town-
ship of Bawoliffe annexed to it, being one mile distant. The only certain endowment
was £6 a year paid to the Minister by Bichard Sherburne Esq. Lord of the Muior,
and £40 a year from the Committee of Flnndered Ministers. There appears to haye
been no Incumbent at the time of the Survey. — FarL Inq. Lamb. Lihr, The Chapel,
which is of brick, was rebuilt in 1749, and enlarged in 1768.
The Vicar of Eirkham appoints the Curate.

> Dedicated to St. Anne. Value in 1834, £110.

The Manor of Great Singleton always appears to haye been in the Crown, and was
sold by James I. in the year 1623, to Edward Badbie, and William Welden of Lon-
don. In the last century it had become yested in the £unily of Eanshaw, from whom
it passed to that of Cunliflb Shaw Esq. It was sold by William Cunliffe Shaw of
Singleton Lodge Esq. to Joseph Hornby of Bibby Hall Esq. &ther of Hugh Hornby
Bsq. the late Manorial owner, and Patron of the Liying, who died in October 1849.

A Chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, existed in Syngelton in the 10th year of the
Bnohy, jld. 1387. The present foundation is ''believed to be prior to the Beforma-
tion." — Baines, p. 408. It is said to haye been a Boman Catholic place of Worship
until the beginning of the last century, when, according to Bomanist authority, ''it
was forcibly seised by the Protestants.'* — Andrews' Orthodox Journal, yol. i. n. 46.
This statement is considered to be " entirely rebutted" by the ftct of the Bey. Cuth-
bert Harrison haying been ordained to the Chapel in the year 1661, and ejected ftt>m

424 llotttta etMtmmint.

Ws^m,^ Certif.[ied] 0&-l»'04A, viz.

from Land^ 5i«18»«4*; Int.[erest] of
money^ 1^; paid by S' H.[enry] Houghton, 4^-8"-0*, part of his
Sister's portion. Certif.[icate] of the Vicar, an.[no] 1723.

[Thomas Smith bequeathed, in 1685, £20, the interest of which
to be given " to a lawful Minister at Lund Chapel '" Alice Han-
kinson bequeathed, in 1690, 40s. ; and in 1680, Alice Clitherall
bequeathed £5, which, with Dickson's £30, were invested in
Land in 1693.]

3 m.[iles] from [the] Par.[ish] Church, [and] served by [the]
Head-Master of IQrkham School, who preaches and reads prayers
every Sunday, Sacrament dayes excepted.

it in 1662 : but it is somewhat remarkable that Bishop Ghistrell does not notice it as
one of the dependencies of Kirkham. In the Parliamentary Inquisition of 1650 it
was stated that Singleton Chapel was newly erected, and that the Inhabitants desired
that it might be made a Parish, and they have a settled Minister there with a compe-
tent allowance, as they had neither one nor the other, although they were seren miles
from the Parish Church, and consisted of one hundred and forty fiEumlies. — Pari. Ikq.
Lamb. Uhr»

Singleton Chapel was rebuilt by Joseph Hornby Esq. in the year 1809» and the
windows contain some handsome stained glass.

1 Dedicated to St. John the Evangelist. Value in 1884, £192. Biters at
Eirkham.

Lund Chapel stands in a lonely part of the Township of Clifton cum Salwick, and
was an antient Chantry. In the 8th Henry YIII. upon settling the Estates of Mr.
Cliflon, the Chantry of the Chapel of Lund, and the Advowson or Donation thereof
was included in the settlement. In the 9th Henry YIII. a chief rent was payable
out of the Chantry of Lund ; and one Cubban was a tenant. In the 24th Heniy
YIII. a recovery of the Donation of Lund Chantry was suffered; and in the let
Edward YI. it was seized into the King's hands. On the 19th of February in the 8d
James, in consideration of £20, paid by Sir Cuthbert Halsall of Halsall to Thomas
Clifton, (who married Anne, daughter and coheiress of Sir Cuthbert Halsall, represen-
.tative of Elizabeth, sole heiress of Cuthbert Clifton of Clifton Esq.) it was granted,
with certain lands and tenements, by the King's Letters Patent, to Messrs. Broome
and Knight, in fee, who conyeyed the same to Sir Cuthbert Halsall. From this time^
the Chantry Chapel was considered to belong to the Clift^ns of Clifton, being never
used by any others, except during the Commonwealth, when the family were
"banished for their loyalty." About the year 1687 Sir Thomas Clifton Bart, was

JBeattets of ^LmowMttmsif^ 425

0|n 9Mifmx, by Will dated the 9th of May 1682, gave CWitM.

£60, to be invested in Land, and half the rents to go to a
Minister " legally authorized to teach and preach in the Chapel of
Lnnd, according to the Church of England ;" and the other moiety
to a Schoolmaster, to teach a School at Clifton. Elizabeth Cli-
therall gave, in 1675, £5 to the Poor of Clifton, Newton cum
Scales, and Freckleton.

under conyiction and restraint on aoconnt of Oatee' Plot ; and the opportunity was
said to have been taken by certain indiyiduals to demand the key of the Chapel of the
tenants of the Manor of Clifton, who were chiefly Boman Catholics, " and, as those
tymee went, lyable to trouble," and who, therefore, surrendered it. A Preacher was
accordingly appointed, and continued to be maintained by voluntary contributions. —
Clffhm Hfridenoea, Lane, MSS, Notwithstanding this statement, the Ber. lUchard
Clegg, Vicar of Kirkham, claimed this as a Chapel of Ease to Eirkham, and nominated
Mr. Thomas Byley to the Curacy, who does not appear to have been Licensed by the
Bishop, nor was it clear that the Chapel had erer been Consecrated. As the Yicars of
KirkhaTn continued to ezeroise the Patronage, it is probable that Mr. Clegg substan-
tiated his claim, which was resisted by the Cliftons, and also as the following note
will prove, by the Bishop of Chester: — " 1687, Sep. 14. Mr. Clegg, (Vicar of Eirk-
ham,) brought Mr. Dean's Letter and the Subdean with him, to claim Lond Chapel,
now possessed by Sir Thomas Clifton, and acknowledged by all to stand on his ground;
but could make out no shadow of title to it, and so was dismissed by me." — Bishop
Cartwright's Diaryy p. 78. In 1660 it was returned as being four nules from the
Parish Church, and had only £40 per annum allowed for a Minister by the Com-
mittee of Plundered Ministers, which was. received by Joseph Harrison, a godly,
diligent, and painful Pastor, who, in 1648, had 60s. a year for life settled upon him
by the Inhabitants, and the reversion to **a preaching Minister at Limd;" and if
there should be a vacancy the Trustees named were ** to hire a Minister to preach
at the said CSiapeL*' Calomy says Mr. Joseph Harrison, ** the Minister of Lun
Chapel," who died in 1664, was ''fixed in a dark comer, where he was wonderfully
followed, and very usefuL" — ^VoL ii p. 867.

In the year 1^8 Matthew Hall, Churchwarden, had an information laid against
him before the Bishop of Chester, for setting up " a scandalous trough" for a Font,
at Lund Chapel ; which is said to have been a veritable Boman Altar, and the honest
Warden to have had very loose notions on " the peril of Idolatry."

The Chapel was almost entirely rebuilt, of stone, in 1826. The Curate is now
nominated by Christ Church, Oxford.

Clifton cum Salwick, and Newton cum Scales, were constituted a District Parish in
1840, under the Ist and 2d Victoria, cap. 106 ; and the Tithes of these Townships
have since been conveyed to the Living of Lund, which is thereby increased to the
annual value of £842.

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426 ilotftfa etntrtm^in.

ttSUSff^ 0& RiBBY CUM Wray. The
Chappell was built at y^ expence of y^
Inhab. [itants ;] and 'tia intended y^ [the School] Master sh^
Officiate there till some Endowm^ can be procured. Certif.[ied]
an.[nd] 1724.

i^d^ooU. ^^^ ore is a new building ab^ 25 yards long, and 7 broad, one
2^^ end of it, containing about 11 y.[ards] in length, is seated
for a School, w^ rooms over it for a Master. The other part,
about 14 y.[ards]. long, is separated from y« School by a Brick
wall, and intended for a Chap, [el] of Ease. The School was built
w^ money left by [the] Will of one [Nicholas] Sharpies, [dated
10th Sept. 1716,] w**» w^ was purchased 81^ p.[er] an.[num] in
Land; and y* Sch.[ool] being now built w*^ y« Income, 2tf or 25^
p.[er] an.[num] is designed for a Master, and j^ rest for y« use of
y« School.

Here is another School,^ Free to this TownsP, Founded by Jam.

> Dedicated to St. Nicholaa. Value in 1884, £76. Begisten at Eirkham.

At the Domesday Surrey, Bigbi contained six camcates, which were given to Boger
de Foictoo, who gare the Tithes here to the Priory of Lancaster ; which gift was
confirmed by John, Earl of Morton. In the 8d John, Adam de Wra, and Ckrard
his brother, paid two marks to the King, that the Sheriff might not nnjustly yes them
for the tenement which they held. Henry m. gave the Manor to Edmund, Earl of
Lancaster} and John of Gtannt afterwards held the Manors of Biggeby and Wra.
The Manor was in the possession of Hugh Hornby of Eibby Hall Esq. at his death
in October 1849.

In the year 1650 the Inhabitants of Bigby cum Wray, Warton, Eellamoie oum
Bryning, Westby and Plumpton, fiur from their Parish Church, and near Bigby oum
Wray, were willing to contribute towards the erecting of a Chi^ there. They all
desired to be united and made a Parish, and to haye a Minister constantly maintained
there. £60 a year had already been allowed for that purpose by the Committee of
Plundered Ministers. Elswick was recommended to be made a distinct Parish, with
additions to its extent. — JParl. Inq, Lcmh, lAbr, yoL iL

The Chapel is situated at Bibby, near Wray Ghreen, and was built about the year
1716, although not Consecrated until 1757. It was rebuilt in 1847. The Vicar of
Kirkham appoints the Curate.

' Bishop Chutrell does not appear to have been informed that these two Bene&e-

9tumvs of ftmottitSetmM. 427

[es] Thisleton [of WreaJ by Will [dated 10th Jan.] an. [no]
1693-4. Sal.[ary] of [the] Master is under 10* p.[er] an.[num,]
who is nominated by y« Trustees. Vide Norn, [ination] 1698, by
[the] Easec.\utor8] of the Founder , £fc. Pap. Beg.

A considerable sum [£850, was] lately given for Founding a
new School here, [but] not yet particularly known. Certif.[ied]
a«.[no] 1722. V.[ide] Sharpies, Above.

aHWIdN,* newly erected, not Conse- SLugttl.
crated or Endowed, an. [no] 1722.
Augmented an. [no] 1724, w*^ 20tf, given by Mr. Peplo,^ Vic.
[ar] of Preston, and others.

ii;sa:s^eii;9i9«[Si.,]i within aiugm.

GOOSENARGH, AL^S ThRELFALL ChAP.

[el.] Certif.[ied] that nothing at all belongs to it, and is served
now and then only, out of charity, at y® request of y^ people.

tions were united in the establiahment and support of one School, which is still part
of the Chapel, according to the deecription in the text.

1 Dedicated to St. Panl. Value in 1834, ^^86. Begiflters at Eirkham.

Warton — the Wartun of Domesday — was held in the time of £ing John, by
^omas de Betham of Betham in Westmoreland, whose descendant and representa-
tire, Ann, daughter and heiress of Boger Betham, married, in the reign of Bichard
HL Sir Bobert Middleton of Leighton, and conrejed the Estates to his fisunilj. In
the 7th Henry VJJLl. the Manor was held by Bichard Singleton of Broughton, and
Joanna Standish. The Earl of Derby is the present Manerial owner, and holds his
Ck>urt here.

The Chapel, with a white-washed Tower and exterior, was consecrated in the year
1726. The Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford, nominate the Incumbent.
A district Parish was formed in 1846.

' For some account of Mr. Peploe, afterwards Bishop of Chester, see the Life of
Bishop Qatirell,

> Dedicated to St. James. Value in 1834, £104. Begisters at Eirkham.

The date of this foundation is unknown. In the year 1650 the Inhabitants of the

428 fijotiHA etfitxwimi».

10 m. [iles] from [the] Par. [ish] Church.

20tf [was] subscribed by Mr. [Williamj'Bushell,^ Curate of
Goosenargh; and [the] Inhab.[itantsJ tow.[ards] the augment,
[ationj and accepted by [the] Gov.[emor8] of [the] Q.[ueen]'8
Bounty, an. [no] 1717.

^^aoL ^^ ere is a School in y« Higher side of Ooosenargh taught in
^^ y« White Chap, [el,] endowed [in 1705,] first, by one Will.
[iam] Lancaster of Goosnargh, w*^ [the] Int. [crest] of 4ffi; and
since augment, [ed] by Will, [iam] Higham of Goosn. [argh,] w*
[the] Int.[erest] of etf, [by Will dated 17th Feb. 1718.]

[The] Master [is] nominated by [the] Exec" of Lancaster and
Higham.

Gbapeliy of Threl&ll within Qoosnargh, desired to be made a FariBh, a« thej con-
sisted of four score jhmilies, and were three miles distant from Gk>08nargh GhapeL
Their Chapel had no endowment ; but £50 a year was allowed to Mr. Sherburne,
their Curate, by the Committee of Plundered Ministers. — JParl. Inq. Lamb. lAhr.

The Chapel was enlarged in the year 1716. In 1846 it was constituted a district
Parish, and the Patronage transferred from the Yicar of Kirkham to the Dean and
Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford.

^ The Bev. William Bnshell was the second, but eldest suryiying son, of the Ber.
Seth BusheU D.P. Vicar of Lancaster. He was Incumbent of Goosnargh in 1715 —
1721, also Bector of Heysham, and &ther of William Bushell Bsq. M.D. the Founder
of GK>osnargh Hospital. This latter public benefiictor, by Will dated the 2l8t of May
1736, in case his daughter, ElLsabeth BusheU, should die under the age of twenty-one
years, without issue, derised all his real Estate, except Lands in Heysham, to William
Atherton, and five others, in Trust, to build and endow an Hospital in Goosnargh,
(where he then resided,) for the maintenance and support of decayed Gentlemen and
G-entlewomen, being Protestants, and inhabitants of Preston, Buxton, Gt>OBnaigh,
Whittingham, Fulwood, and Elston, in the county of Lancaster, with power to make
rules and orders for the Gt>Temment of the Hospital.

The Founder died on the 7th, and was buried at Leyland on the 10th of June
1735 ; and the daughter died a minor in 174i6. The Income, which, in 1824^ was
£855. Ss. 6d. exclusive of the Hospital and Land belonging to it, is now about
£1,500 per annum, with a prospect of a considerable increaae. There were at that
time thirteen alms-people in the house ; and the number is nqw twenty-six. This is
one of the finest foundations in the county : the Hospital has the appearance of a
gentleman's mansion ; and the elegant and simple hospitality of refined life is conspi-
cuous in all the arrangements.

JBeAtms nf 9LmnxMttmM. 429

aWTCaSJCSil,* about 2001 p.[er] an. [num.] This -pr.^ J *, *
Church was endowed by Joan North, Abbease of Syon, p^; ^Jf •
an.[no] 1480. syn... 0. a. s

An. [no] 1480, it was ordained by [the] Archd.[ea- '^ii.^M.a ®
con] of Bichm. [ond] y* y« Vicar sh^ be presented to him by [the] ^^ ^' ^ ^^
Ab. [bess] and Ck>nyent of Syon ; that he should have all the Tyths
of Com in the fields of Lane, [aster] only, and the Tyths of all
Ghurbs of Thymom and Gressamer, and also of Bigby, Wra, and
Baggerburgh w^Mn the Par.[ish] of Lane, [aster,] w^ all oblations,

> Bedicated to St. Mary. Value in 1834, £1,709. BegiBten begin in 1699.

Lanoaster was a Boman station of the first order, and the number of Boman anti-
quities found here removes all doubt on the subject, whilst the termination eruter^
given by the Saxons to towns where the Bomans had fixed their stations, serves to
oonfinn the fiiot. Lone-oaster, or the Castle on the Lone^ was the name given during
the Heptarchy, to this town, in the same way that Bibbleohester, or the Oastle on
the Bibble^ wss the designation of Bibehester. In the library of Brasenose College,
is a copy of Lyndwood's Promnoiale^ printed at Antwerp in 1526, formerly belonging
to William Fleetwood of Fenwortham, Seijeant>at-Law, in whose hand is the follow-
ing mamorandam, written in 1582 : — *' He that made the Commentaries upon this
Book was William Lyndewoode, bom in the Dale of MUame^ now called T^^ndesdale,
in the County PaL of Lancaster, who, upon the mother^s side, was descended of the
fiunily of Tnnstalls of Thorland Castle, within Landesdale aforesaid. He was great
unele unto Cuthbert Tunstall, late Bishop of Duresme," and was made Bishop of St.
David's in 1485.— Archdeacon Churton^s L^e of JOeam Nawell^ Note, p. 806. On
tiiis Note^ Dr. Thomas D. Whitaker remarks, especially with respect to JHUaimef —
«Xhis is explained by a passage in Fleetwood's Buiofy of ih€ Duohff of Lamea&ter^
{M8, pemfe me^) a work as fnU of leavniug as it is devoid of good sense — 'Lancaster,
the which by Ptolomy, in his Tables, is called Mediolanwm j' and, ' forasmuch as the
•aid Oastle was situate in the middle of the Biver Lone, therefore did Ptolomy set it
down by the name of Mediolanum.* "

'^It has usoaQy been understood that Lyndwood was bom at a place of that name
in Linoolnshire ; but Fleetwood's testimony is at once so positive and oironmstantia],
that it must, in my opinion, be allowed to preponderate." — ^MHiitaker's M8, Notes on
the Psoof Sheets of Archdeacon Churton's Idfe of Deem Nowell, in the possession of
the Bar. Bobert Nowell MThitaker M.A. Vicar of Whalley. 1849. Dr. Whitaker
has referred to Fleetwood's M8. in his JButortf of Biohm<mdehire^ vol. ii p. 218,
et §eq.

The Normans found Lancaster in decay, the ancient city reduced to a village,

480 llotftfa etfittcitmUk.

&c. ; as also all mortuaryes and tyths of Wool, Lamb^ Calves^ But-
termilk^ and Cheese, of all [the] Inhab. [itants] w**»in Wyresdale
and Blessedale; and the Tyths of Pigg, Flax, Hemp, Fidgeons,
Apples, Hay, and of the Mills of y^ whole Parish, and Tyth of
Agistments in Toxteth, Croxtath, and Symondwode; with all
Small and mixt Tyths of y^ Chappelryes of Overton, Stalmyn,
Catun, and Gressingham, &c. MS. Eb.lor."]

Some words in y« endowment of y« Vicaridge are, —

'* Inveniat Vicarius et sustentet sex Capellanos quorum tres in

and the Boman castruxn little better than a ruin. William the Conqueror conferred
the Bianor, at that time a Till, inclosed in the superior Manor of Halton, on Boger de
Poictou, who founded or enlarged the present Oastle, and made it his chief Baronial
residence. Surrounded by a fertile country, on the banks of a nayigable nver, and
(what was always a principal object in choosing the sites of great Castles,) command-
ing a widely extended view of his own new domains, the Norman chief must hare
been struck by a green and shapely knoll, begirt eyen then by the oonspiouous remains
of Boman fortifications, including the relics of a Saxon Church, which would afford
ample materials for his projected work. Out of these, unquestionably, and on tiie
yeiy crown of the hiU, the massy Tower, which now seems to look down with soom
on the puny mimicries of modem art, was first reared in a style of solidity which
emulates the duration even of Boman masonry. Camden says the British name of
the town was " Caerwerid," or the green City, from the green knoll on which it is
built ; and this ancient name he considers to be preserved in the Wery-wall, a Teiy
curious remain of architecture below the Church.

The repeated defections of Boger de Poictou, the first Baron of Lancaster, lost him
the &your of the Crown, and with it his possession of the Castle of Lancaster, and also
his lands between the Mersey and the Bibble. These lands were conferred by Henry I.
on Banuli^ the third Earl of Chester, and passed through the possession of the Earls of
Chester, and afterwards of their representatives, the Ferrers' Earls of Derby, untfl
the attainder of Bobert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, in the year 1266 ; when his confis-
cated lands between the Bibble and Mersey were united with the Honor of Lancaster,
and given by Henry m. to his youngest son, Edmund Crouchback, the first Earl of
Lancaster. Henry, the grandson of the Earl, was advanced by Edward m. on the
6th of March 1861, to the title and dignity of Duke of Lancaster, with power granted
by the King, in 1868, to have a Chancery in the County of Lancaster, with all the
rights, privileges, and regalities of a Palatinate. Dying without male issue^ his
daughter, and eventually sole heiress, Blanch, married John of Ghrant, Earl of Bich-
mond, fourth son of Edward m. and conveyed to him her extensive territorial pos-
sessions; and he dying in 1396, was succeeded by hb only surviving son, Heniy
Plantagenet, Earl of Bolingbroke, who, in the following year, having deposed his cou-
sin, Bichard II. ascended the English throne as Henry IT. ; and, from that time to

•eanerg of 9lmounOente«i$* 481

Ecclesid de Lanc.^ et alii tres^ unus in cap. de Oressingham^ alios
in cap. de Caton^ et tertius in cap. de Stalmyn^ sumptibus et
expensis dicti Vicarii Divina celebrabunt.^^ V.[ide] Pap. Reg,
V. [ide] Beg. Bowet, f. 53, ^c. Erectio, ^c. Vicar,

An. [no] , an Order [was granted] to remove an Inscription
over the Communion Table. Beg.[i9ter] S.[oo*,] 8, p. 187.

An. [no] 1481, [the] Vic.[ar was] pres.[ented] by [the] Ab-
besse of St. Mary and St. Bridgett of Syon, [of the] Ord.[er] of
St. Aug. [ustine.] Beg. Bowet, f. 55.

the present, the Dachj of Lancaster has been associated with the Begal dignity. —
Whitaker's Siti. of Sichmandshirey toI. ii. p. 216 ; Baines's Sut. of Lancashire^
▼oL It. ; Ghreg8on*8 FrtMgmewU of LaauscuMre.

Boger de Poioton gave the Church of St. Mary of Lancaster, in the year 1094i, to
Gk>d and St. Martin of Sees in Normandy, with Tarious other AdyowsonB and lands ;
and also amply endowed the Priory of St. Mary of Lancaster.

The Church of Lancaster haying the pririlege of Sanctuary, was appropriated to
the Priory, by the License of John Bomanus, Archdeacon of Bibhmond, dated at
York, the 3d of March 1246, (and not 1266, as given by Baines, p. 516 ;) and in 1291
the Church was valued at £80.

On the suppression of the Alien Priories by the Parliament of Leicester in the 2d
Henry Y. 1414, the Priory of Lancaster was resumed by the Crown ; and early in the
following reign, Thomas, [Langley,] Bishop of Durham, and John, [Wakering,]
Bidhop of Norwich, who held it as Trustees of the late King, assigned it to the
Abbess and Conyent of Sion, whose house his Majesty had founded. The assignment
was made by license of Henry YI. and confirmed by authority of Parliament in
1432.

John, [Kempe,] Archbishop of York, by an Act dated the 1st of September 1428,
sequestered the goods of the Priory of Lancaster, pending a Controyersy between the
Abbess of Sion and Henry Bowet, Archdeacon of Richmond, as to the Tithes which
had accrued since the death of Giles Loyell, the last Prior. The result is giyen in the
text, but has not been noticed by any of the Historians of the Parish of Lancaster,
although Ducarel refers to the original Deed of Ordination of the Yicarage, dated
London, 9th o^ Eebruaay 1480, in the Augmentation Office, Jfwc. Chart, b. 1 ; and
to a Copy in the B^gistry of the Commissary of Richmond. — Noiat. fol. 10, c. The
AdyowBon fell to the Crown on the Dissolution of the Abbey of Sion, and being shortly
afterwards alienated, was, after some intermediate conyeyanoes, in the beginning of
the seyenteenth century, yested in the family of Toulson. In the next century, it
had passed to the Martons, the Bey. Oliyer Marton being instituted to the Liying in
1767; and Gborge Marton of Caponwray Hall Esq. M.P. his descendant, is the
present Patron.

There were two Chantries in this Church in the year 1586.

482 llottMa CtntxitmUk.

An. [no] 1472^ John Gardiner gave 6^ p.[er] an.[num,] to be p^
from Newton Mill for a Chaplain to worship for ever at y^ Altar
of St. Thomas of Canterburjr, in y^ par.[i8h] Church of St. Mary
of Lancaster. V. [ide] fVill [in] New Reg.

The farthest part of this Parish where the Vicar receives his
dues lyes w^in a mile of Preston, (w^ is 20 m. [iles] frt)m Lane.)
[aster J to y^ Vicar of which place the Vicar of Lane, [aster] payes
8**4^ p.[er] an.[numj that being (as it is supposed) an acknow-
ledgment for y* care he may take of that part.

Mem. the Vicar of Lancaster shall pay every year to y* Officers
of [the] Archd.[eacon] of Richm^ &**S\ pro expenais suis, &c.
infra Dec. Amound. singulis capiQis bis in anno. Old. Reg, 00.

In the year 1663 Robert Mackerell was the Chantry Priest of LaDcatter Hoapital,
and had a stipend of iv* iiii* ii'. This is probably the Chantry here alluded to by
Bishop Gastrell, and said by Bainee to have been founded in 1486, by John Gardyner
of Bailrig, for the support of four poor persons, as well as for the stated celebration
of Divine offices in the Parish Church. The Founder appears to have made his Will
in 1472, and to haye died about the year 1484. In the time of Bichard III. Nicholas
Qardyner, the Bxecutor of John Gardyner, had a Licence to found a Chantry in our
Lady's Church of Lancaster, and to mortise lands there. Prayers are still read on
Wednesdays and Fridays, according to the charitable intentions exp resse d in the
Founder's WilL — See Gasdtioeb's Hospital.

In the year 1660 Lancaster was returned as a Yicarage, in the gift of Q«oige
Toulmion QteDt. [called by Dr. Whitaker, TomUiuonf and by Baines, 2b«ttM0«, bat
spelt Toulsan by the fanuly.] The Tithes were impropriated to Sir Robert Bindloss
Bart, and fiurmed at £610 a year. There were twenty-seven acres of Glebe, near the
Church, within the town. The Tiths of Com and Grain in Lancaster, Thnmham
cum Glasson, Baldsbury, and Midgham in Myerscough, with Wool and Lamb, Ac. in
most of the said Parish, were estimated at £280 per annum. Mr. William Marshall
MJL was the Yicar, and a humble and &ithfnl Minister of Jesus Christ ; but as the
Patron, in 1660, was one of the Inquisitors, he was doubtless no Churchman, espe-
cially as Mr. Augustine Wildbore had been deprived of the Yicarage by an Order of
the House of Commons, in October 1648. — Fori, Inq, iKtmb. I4br»

In the 6th Gheorge lY. Sess. 1824^ an Act of Parliament was obtained to commute
for a Com Bent, the Great Tithes, Small Tithes, and Easter Offerings of the Parish
of Lancaster, to produce annually £1,868, liable to be increased and varied according
to the Market price of Wheat, but not to be diminished below that sum.

The architecture of the Church is late Perpendicular, and probably the work of
the Nuns of Sion, in the fifteenth century. The Tower was erected in the year 1769.
The Stalls in the Chancel, of elaborately carved oak, hare long attracted the notice of

•eamrs of StnumtiOetiteM* 488

An. [no] 1575^ Will.[iain] Laybum^ Oent. presented to this
Vic.[arage.J Inst.[itution] B.[ook,'] 1. Pap. B.^ook,] p. 7.

An. [no] 1681^ the King presented. B.look,'] 2, p. 91. The
same Yicar was presented by Tho. [mas] Farington Gent, as tme
Patron. lb. p. 116.

An. [no] 1682^ Geo.[rge] Toulson of Stockes^ Yorksh.[ireJ pre-
sented as VvLtron, pleno jure. lb. p. 155.

An. [no] 1714^ Bob.[ert] Gibson was adjudged Patron upon a
Jure Paironat.

An. [no] 1716, Mrs. Abigail Bigby left [the] Int.[erest] of lOQi,
to such person as should preach once in six weeks, and Admin,
[ister] the Sacrm* accord, [ing] to [the] use of [the] Ch.[urch]
of Eng. [land,] 8 times a year, to y« Poor Prisoners in y* Castle.

There are 9 Churchwardens, besides y^ 6 Chap, [el] wardens : Eirtxmi. 12.
1 for Lancaster; 1 for Skerton; 1 for Poolton, Bare, and Torris-

the curious m splendid specimens of ancient art, and are traditionally said to have
been bronglit from Oockersand Abbey. A fine East Window, of stained glass, was
erected in 1847. The priyilege of Sanctuary was abolished here in 1608, by autho-
rity of Parliament.

Dr. James Fenton, Yicar of Lancaster, in a letter (dated Feb. 2d 1716,) addressed
to Bishop Gastrell, then at Oxford, says, " The best account I can give you of this
Parish is a very imperfect one. When the Church was built I know not ; but in
1430 there were, I suppose, no more than three Chapels of Ease belonging to it, viz.
Stalmin, Gressingham, and Caton ; but when the three other Chapels were erected,
or consecrated, 1 cannot inform myself. It*s almost impossible to teU w* extent y*
Parish is of, because it's yeiy often cut off by inteijaoent Parishes. The fiurthest
part of it, where I receive any Dues, lys w*in a mile of Preston j to the Vicar of w**»
I pay 8^ 4fi per an. y' being, as I imagine, an acknowledgment of his care of y' Part.
The Beason why some of the ChapeUs are so far from the Mother Church, is because
there are some other Parishes between them and it. On the South, Cockerham
Parish lys between Lancast' and StaJmin. On the North, all Halton Parish is be-
tween Gressingham and us. On the East, part of Cockerham Parish strikes in again
between Wyendale and its Mother Church ; and, tow^ the South-East, Giirstang
Parish does the same to Admarsh. — I have waited for the inform" of some Old Men
as to the erecting and consecrating of the two last ment** Chapels, but I found them
as ignorant of the affidr as myself. My wife presents her duty to your Lp. and
wishes you a good Recovery." — Ghistrell's IfSS. Begittry^ Chester.

* LeUmd mentions Ashton, *' a meane Place of the King's Lande, where Mr. Ley-
bum, Knyght, usith to lye." Probably James Leyboum, a Lancashire Recusant, who

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434 flotttia CtntKitnnii^

holme; 1 for Bulk and Aldcliff; 1 for Stodhay^ Ashton^ Thum-
ham^ and Glassen; 1 for Scofforth^ [ScotforthJ Bailri^^ and
Burrow; 1 for Overton, Heaton, and Middleton; 1 for Wyers-
dale; 1 for Quarmore, [Quemmore.]

dratimuir ^M tl.[tto] 1472, a Grammar School^ [was] Founded here by
t^ooL 5SlS John Gardiner; the Master to receive 6 marks p.[er] an.

[num] from Newton Mill. V.[ide] fVill [in] N^lew] Reff.[i8t€r.']
The School-house was rebuilt in 1684. The Upper Master of

this Free School has 30^ p.[er] an. [num] paid by y« Town, and

Vfi more y« Gift of Mr. Proctour, [in 1717 :] the money [is] in y«

hands of y« Town.

The Sal.[ary] of [the] Under Master is 15^ p.[er] an. [num;]

10^ p*[er] an. [num] of w^^ is paid out of some houses in London,

and 5^ p.[er] an. [num] is [the] Int.[erest] of money given by

Mr. Heysham,* and paid by y« Town.

suffered in the year 1683 for his Politics and Religion, was of the same family ; and
a3bo Bishop Layboume, the Bomish Confessor of James II.

' The Charity Commissioners, in the year 1825, could learn nothing accurately
respecting the origin of this SchooL The earliest notice of it was found in the Will
of Bandid Carter, dated the 18th of April 1616, who gave £10 a year to the Usher of
the Free Qrammar School of Lancaster, charged upon lands in Whitecross Street,
London; and which is still paid by the QoTemors of the G^rammar School of St.
Saviour's, Southwark, which School was also endowed out of the same lands by the
same bene&ctor.

* Mr. Heysham's name, as a benefactor, was unknown to the Corporation at the
date of the above Commission ; but ^* the Peep Carr Meadow, now called Usher's
Meadow," near the town, was, in February 1708, stated to have been late in the pos-
session of Thomas Shearson Esq. and was then settled on the Usher for the time
being ; although Baines observes that it ^ was probably granted originally by one of
the Dukes of Lancaster!" In 1823 its yearly rent was £19. The following is doubt-
less an account of this benevolent individual, from the MS. Journal of William Stout^
the Lancaster Quaker : — '' 1723. About the 26 day of 12 mo. 1722-3, Bobert Hey-
sam of London died, who had been Bepresentative in Parliament for Lancaster from
1698, and was a very great benefiictor to the Town in generall and to many particu-
larly, and generous to all without partiality in respect of Beligious profession." —
Lane, MS8, vol. xi p. 343.

There also occurs in the same Journal a notice of another member of the same phi*
lanthropic jbmily : — " 1727. In the 2* mo. this year, W" Heysam, who was one of

Seaners of 9lmoittiOente«i$« 435

The Masters are both elected by [the] Mayor and Bailiffs.
Mayor and Council! [so] certif.[ied] an. [no] 1722.

The houses in Lond. [on] were given by Randall Carter. Mr.
Heysham's 100^ was laid out in in a Meadow near y« Town, y«
rent of w<* is 7^ p[er] an. [num.]

The School (as is supposed) was erected at first by y« Corpo-
ration.

Dr. Jam.[es] Pilkington,* Bp. of Durham, ab* an. [no] 1562
built a School at Lancaster, and brought y« Statutes of y« School
to be overlookt and examined by Mr. Bernard Gilpin, Rect.[or]
of Houghton, who had built and endowed a School in that Parish.
Gilpin's Ufe, 4to, 1629.

The Int.[erest] of KW is left to one who shall teach Poor Chil- jF^UDOotr
dren to read and write in this Towns? ; and a School is erected for ^^^^^
that purpose.^

tVt are two Hospitalls ; one of y™, (the Founder of which is f^oitpttxtt*
not known,) was designed for 4 old men, who were to re-
ceive 2^ p. [er] an.[num] apiece.

the Members of Parliament for Lancaeter, died at Bath, who was an indolent man
and of noe serrioe; but he left an Estate at Greayes, the Bent to 8 Poor Freemen, to
be named by the Mayor, Recorder, and three of the oldest Aldermen, and soe succes-
sively as any die, w*^ is at least £6 a y' each, the Estate being above £40 a year.
The next mo. Christopher Towers Jun' was elected in his stead, to serve and succeed
him in Parliament, aged about 30 years, and unmarried." — Lane. MS8. vol. iL p. 845.
His Will was dated the 22d of April 1725. He died July 7th 1726. ? The Estate
consists of upwards of one hundred and fifty acres of land, and in 1818 the rent was
JB270.

' This account of Bishop Pilkuigton*s School is doubtless to be referred to Bivington,
(see Not. Cettr. vol. ii. p. 21 ;) although Mr. Carlisle says that Bishop Pilkington,
who died in 1575, contributed liberally towards the erection of Lancaster Ghrammar
School in 1682 !

' The School was built in the Townships of Cadeley and Fnlwood, on a piece of
Common given by the Corporation of Preston in the year 1707, at the request of the
Bev. Samuel Peploe M.A. the Yicar, (afterwards Bishop of Chester,) who, about
1722, received £80, under the Will of John Hatch of Preston, for the use of the
School ; £10 more, a bequest for bread to the poor, to be given on Sacrament Sun-
days, at Preston ; and £10 contributed by Mr. Peploe, making £100, which sum was

436 llotttta etnttcitnMi^

Founded by John Gardiner^ [in] 1472^ who gave all his Lands
and ten^^ w^ appurtenances^ for upholding his Alms-house, and
for [the] maintenance of y^ Poor there ; and of one Chaplain to
worship at [the] Par.[ish] Church of Lane, [aster J and at y*
Alms-house as often as need be, if there be any Poor who cannot
get to y« sd Church. V.[ide] Will [in] N.\€w] Reg.[ister.]

The other, w«^ is not yet built, (an. [no] 1717,) was Founded by
Mr. Alderman Penny,^ who left all his Lands, Messuages, &c. in
y^ Town and County of Lane, [aster,] as also 700^ to be laid out in
Lands, and money to buy ground whereupon to bmld an Hospi-
tall and Chappell in y« Town, for 12 old indigent men or women,
who are to receive 3i«6«.8^ each, yearly, and 18»«4^ more, for
a Coat and Gown; and 4A p.[er] an.[num] for a person to Bead
Prayers to them. W* remains of y« profits of y« Lands left, or
purchased, [is] to be laid out in putting out Apprentices.

expended in the purchase of fire acres of land called *' Norshaw," and oonyeyed to the
said Mr. Feploe, and the Bar. William Chamlej, Curate of Broughton in the Pariah
of Preston, in Trust, to apply eight parts in ten of the rents to the said School ; one
part in ten to be distributed in bread, bj the Yicar for the time being; and the
remaining tenth part to the said Peploe, his heirs, and assigns, for erer ; although
they do not appear to reoeire any benefit from this careful provision of their prudent
ancestor.

7 The Founder was, as stated by Gbstrell, John Oardyner ; and by Indenture dated
the 12th of June 1486, his feoffees, he being dead, stood seized of the Manor of Bay-
brig, and lands in divers other places, to the uses of his Will, and especially to found
a Chantry in Lancaster Church, and support a Chaplain and four poor men in an
Almshouse on the North side of Lancaster Church, lately built by the said Churdyner,
the said Almsmen to receive 7d. a week, and a maid serving the said four poor men
to have 2d. a week ; and if the four poor men should be too infirm to come to the
Chapel of the Virgin in the Church of Lancaster, the Chaplain might perform Mass
at the Altar in the Almshouse. There are still four poor persons appointed by the
Corporation, but their allowance has dwindled down to something nominal, evidently
contrary to the Founder's intention. Nor has any portion of the ample endowment
been reserved for the reparation of the HospitaL

« William Penny of Lancaster G^nt. by Will dated the 2d March 1715, "being in
perfect health and memory, and whilst free from the pains and unfitness for worldly
business, which do actually attend men in Sickness, being desirous to settle the Estate
wherewith Gk>d of his mercy hath Intru8t<ed me^ so that the same, or the greater part
thereof, may for ever hereafter be employed for Charitable purposes," directed that

9tamvs of aimotttiOenieM* 487

An. [no] 1716, Mrs. Abigail Rigby^ left [the] Int.[erest] of 100*
to be divided every year, by [the] Mayor and Vicar, equally betw.
[een] such poor widows of y« Corp. [oration] as never received
Alms, (regard being always had to such as frequent y Church
Service most,) and y« Poor Prisoners in y« Castle. Sir John
Harrison, 10 in 1669, gave £100 to the Poor.

SfifLmSiSbl^,^ Certif.[ied] SLlCOOd,
being a certain Salary settled upon

the Curate by Christ' Parkinson, and others.

10 m.[ile8] from Lancaster. Here is Service [performed] every

first Sunday in the month, and no other.

Sdmnnd Hornby of Poulton Esq. Thomas Bennison, the Elder, of Lancaster G^t.
and Edward Garter of EUeU Gent, should, out of his personal Estate, buy land and
evect an Ahns-honse, with twelve apartments, and a Chiqtel to adjoin the said Alms-
house ; and to pay Ayb marks apiece, yearly, to twelye poor antient indigent men and
women ; and to buy each a good sad coloured gown of kersey, to be made with short
hanging sleeves for the arms, to come out about the elbow, and an old fashioned deep
Cape as could be bought for 18s. 4d. and for other purposes. In 1825, each of the
twelre Alms-men received £3. 66. 8d. every quarter, and a suit of clothes yearly. The
Chaplain received £4 per annum, for reading Prayers on Wednesdays and Eridays.
Mr. Penny, by his Will, gave to his kinswoman, Hannah Hodgson, £10; to his
cousin Ann, wife of Edmund Cole of Lancaster Esq. £10 ; to his kinswoman, Do-
rothy, wife of Stephen Williamson of Natland, his bigger Silver Tankard; to his
kinswoman, Elisabeth, wife of Thomas Hinde of Overton, his lesser Silver Tankard ;
to John Bowes, and Margaret his wife, of Scotforth, 20s. each ; to his Executor, Tho-
mas Hornby Esq. his lai|;e Bible with Maps ; to his kinsman, James Penny of Penny
Bridge, his Statutes at Large ; to his Trustees, Rings of 208. value ; and other small
Legacies. He died on the 29th of June 1716. — Lane, MS8, The Income of the
Estate is about £850 per annum,

' In the returns made to Parliament in the year 1786, it is stated that Abigail
Bigby, by Will in 1709, gave to Prisoners for Debt in Lancaster Castle, a rent charge
of £2 per annum, and a similar rent charge for poor widows. £4 a year is now paid
as a rent charge from the Estate of Thomas Bowes Esq.

^ Sir John Harrison was bom at Lancaster in the year 1589, and was the Author
of a Plan for Collecting the Customs by Commission.

' Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £44. B^gisters b^gin in 1813.
Admarsh is situated in a wild and mountainous district in the Forest of Bleasdale,

488 i^otitta etntvittmii^

^t^oal. 1^ f^rtetoyiftet yatftfndOn,^ by Will dated the 8th of July 1702,
a^n devised a moiety of a dwelUng-house at Hazlehurst in Bleas-
dale, to Richard and William Parkinson, and Richard Farren, to
pay £4i a year to the Preaching Minister who should officiate
monthly at Admarsh Chapel, and the residue to a Schoolmaster to

€fyttit^* teach Scholars at Admarsh Chapel, and £160 to the Poor.

some parts of whicli are held of the Duchy of Lancaster, and six thousand acres being
the property of William Gkmett Esq. whose son resides at Bleasdale Tower. Baines
says " the Chapel is a small low erection, resembling a ruinous habitation more than
a place of worship." It was built before <he year 1577. In 1650 it was returned as
being thirteen miles from the Parish Church, and without a Minister or any main-
tenance; *'and that the People thereabouts are an ignorant and carelesse People,
knowing nothing of the Worshippe of 6k>d, but liTing in ignorance and superstition^
being 6 miles from any Church or Chappell." — Fori, Inq. Lamb, Idhr, What a
striking testimony is this to the value of a resident Minister, and how useful and
indispensable are the quiet and unobtrusiye labours of the humblest Curate. With
the loss of Beligion order is subrerted, ciyilisation oTerthro?m, the reign of
ignorance extended, and of course all moral and social obligations violated. These
Inquisitors knew sufficiently well the value of the pietat et pritca fides of by-gone
days, to prescribe the only remedy. In 1835 the Chapel was rebuilt ; and in 1840
Mr. Sergeant Bellasis presented a painted window. There is also a Parsonage-house;
and the Living has been lately augmented.

The following very interesting account of this humble foundation occurs in a Note
in a volume of Poems by the Bev. Richard Parkinson B.D. Canon of Manchest^,
12mo. 1845 : — " Admarsh was totally without endowment, and generally without a
Minister, except when the Author's ancestors hired one to take the duty once a
month, whose receipts for * wages,' (about four pounds,) I occasionally find among
the papers. To remedy the evils arising from this want of a spiritual Pastor, the
Author's grandfather, who had twelve children, engaged the Bev. Mr. Smith to become
a permanent resident in his house, and teach his children and officiate in the Chapel,
giving hiTn for his labours, board and lodging and ten pounds a year ! and allowing
him to take additional boarders into the roomy house, by way of eking out his scanty
maintenance. Thus one generation of the Gbeenhalghs, Claytons, Walmsleys, and
some other old Lancashire families, were brought up under my grandfather's eye^
while his large &mily obtained a higher style of education than could otherwise have
been obtained for them in that remote region, and with his, after all, but limited
means ; and thus they, as weU as the whole Township, received temporal and spiritual
benefit, for which the Author, as well as many others, has deep reasons to be
grateful."

The Vicar of Lancaster nominat-es the Curate.

2 Christopher Parkinson Gent, by Will dated the 8th of July 1702, devised a

Seaners of fttnoutiOftnem* 489

fU!r®N,* Lonsdale D.{banery.] Cer- iS^a^.^at*
tif.[ied] 9i.l0«.00d, arising out of Hay,
£a8t.[er] Dues, and Surp.[lice] fees.

[The] Tytlis of this Chap.[eb7,] (w<* consists but of one TownsP,) ColDtur. i.
are given by y« Vicar instead of finding a Curate here. Vi&' Let'
ter, Pap. Reg.

The same is done at Gressingham and Stalmyn. lb.

moiety of liis house at Hazlehiirst in Bleasdale, and thirtj-two acres of land, and
other parcels of land, to Trustees, to pay after the death of Elizabeth his wife, £4
yearly, "to the Preaching Minister who should officiate monthly at the Chapel at
Admarsh," and the residue to a Schoolmaster to teach at Admarsh Chapel. He also
left two mortgages, one of £100 upon James Parkinson's lands at Blindhurst, and
another of £60 upon Edward Parkinson's land at Hazlehurst, to make up the School-
master's Salary, and the residue to the Poor of Bleasdale, for clothes, books, &o.
The lands amount to 69a. 80p. ; and the Income of the Charity in 1825 was up-
wards of £68, when the Rey. Robert Parkinson, the yenerable and excellent Incum-
bent of Longridge, (uncle of Canon Parkinson,) was the Trustee. The Curate, who
was at that time the Schoolmaster of Admarsh, received £26 per ^nnnTYij and taught
the children in a building at the end of the ChapeL

> Patron Saint imknown. Yalue in 1884, £100. Registers begin in 1585.

The Manor of Caton in the 8d John, was held by Thomas Gkmet, ancestor of the
ancient foresters of Lancaster, in whose descendants it continued until about the
reign of Edward I. By the Duchy Feodary, it appears that the Manor was held by
Alice and Agnes, daughters and heirs of Thomas de Caton ; but in the 5th Henry
lY. according to Kuerden, it was held by Boger Curwen of the King, and in the Ist
Richard m. Geoffrey Curwen held a moiety of the said Manor. In the reign of
James I. Nicholas Curwen held lands here ; but in the year 1561 the Manor was
in the possession of Thomas Stanley, Lord Monteagle. It was shortly afterwards
purchased by the Daltons of Thumham, and conveyed, by marriage, in the latter part
of the seventeenth century, by Dorothy, younger daughter and coheiress of Robert
Dalton Esq. (who died in 1704,) to Edward RiddeU of Swinburne Castle in the
county of Northumberland Esq. It was afterwards sold to Mr. Thomas Edmondson,
and his representative, John Edmondson Esq. is the present Manerial owner.

A Chapel existed here about the time of Henry III. ; and the Garnets alienated it
to the Priory of Lancaster, John, son of Roger (Fernet, in the time of Edward I.
resigning all his right in the Patronage to the same House. The present Chapel was
built about the time of Henry YIII. The Font is of early English design. In
1660 it was found to be Parochial ; and Mr. Schoolcroft M.A. the Curate, received
£8. 6s. 8d. from the Small Tithes, and £100 per annum out of the Rectory of Bolton,

440 ^Lotftfa CtiMkMin.

4 in.[iles] from [the] Par.[ish] Church. Served by a Curate
who constantly resides [here.]
2 Chap, [el] wardens.

C|>«rtt». MM fben to the Poor, 50i.

(it Jaj.^ar. ^S| HIESSINdWaiiW,* Lonsdale

Wm D.[£ANERY.] Certif.[ied] under 9^-
00" •00^, arising from Small Tyths^ and a small parcell of ground
[of the value] of 16» p.[er] an. [num.] V.[ide] Caton.
7 m.[iles] from [the] Par.[ish] Church.
CoSDtuI* 1. A large Chappelry, tho^ but one Township. The Curate reads
prayers and preaches every Sunday.

whicli formerly belonged, by Lease, to Sir Henry Compton, a delinquent, by Order of
the Committee of Goldflmith's Hall. — Pari. Inq, Lamb. lAbr.

The Yicar of Lancaster nominates the Curate. A Parsonage House was built
in 1844.

The poet Gray, in a letter to Dr. Warton, describing the scenery around Caton,
obserres, " Every feature which constitutes a perfect landscape of the extensire sort
is here not only boldly marked, but also in its best position."

Li the year 1752 the Inhabitants built and endowed a Chapel at Littledale, owing
to their distance from Caton Chapel.

«

' Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834, £80. Registers begin in 1710.

Gressingham — the Ghersinctune of Domesday — was held by Thomas de Gres-
singham in the time of King John, by the Serjeanty of keeping the King's aeries of
Hawks. In the 11th Henry III. Hubert de Burgh had a Charter for land in Ger-
singham, and the Duchy Feodaiy states that Christiana, wife of Adam de Burgh, hdd
the moiety of the Manor by forestry and a rent of 8s. 4d. In the 8d Elizabeth it
had passed to Thomas Stanley, Lord Monteagle ; but no Court is now held, and the
Township is in sereralties.

A Chapel existed here in the thirteenth century, as Boger de Montbegon, who died
in the year 1225, quitclaimed to the Church of St. Martin of Sees, all his rights and
claims in the Chapel of Guersyngham for erer. — Begittr. 8. Marue, p. 2.

In 1660 the Chapel was said to be eight miles Arom the Parish Church, and Mr.
Sill, a painful Minister there, together with his Congregation, humbly pray that
*' they may be made a Parish Church," and that the Inhabitants of Aughton, four

•eonevs of flmotttiOemeKft* 441

One Chap, [el] warden for y^ Chappelry^ consisting of 2 Ham-
lets, Gress.[ingham] and Eskrig, chosen Canon. [icaUy.]

ttt is 10* p.[er] an.[num] charged upon Land for j^ use of C^sritM*
the Poor, given by Thomas [Jphn] Chipendall, in 1715 ; 4^

p.[erl an.[num] by one King; and 5' p*[er] an.[num] by another

Thomas Chipendall.

nElt8r©W Certif.[ied] 12i.05*.00i, auipn.

viz. out of y« Tyths of Overton Itf,
(given by Hugh Cooper Esq.;) out of an Estate left by Jam.[es]
Oardiner, 2^ ; Int. [erest] of 5^, left by Will, [iam] Hind, 5% should
be 6^, [but] now like to be lost. 1725.

miles from Lancaster and tvo miles from Gbeesingham, and abo the Congregation of
Aaram, (eeparated from its Parish Church of Melling b j the Biyer Loyne, which thejr
cannot pass without danger of life,) may be entirely separated from their reepectiye
Parishes and nnited to ''the Congregation and Chnich" of Gbessingham. — Petri. Inq.
Zamb. I4br,

The 20th October 1784^ " gathered on a Brie^ three pence, for Gressingham ChapeL"
MUmroto Seg, — In this year the Chapel was enlarged at an expense of £1,110; and
the beautifrd Anglo-Norman Doorway was fortunately spared.

The Yicar of Lancaster appoints the Licumbent.

1 Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £156. Begisters begin in 1718—1724.

In the reign of King John the Overtons held their lands here by the serrice of
being the Lord's Beeres or Bailiffs. In the 10th year of the Duchy, Henry, Duke of
Lancaster, held the Manor j which was in the possession of Sir John Laurence in the
18ih Henry Vll. It is now styled a *^ Boyalty," and is held in sixteen shares ; and a
Court is annually held caUed the Court Leet and Court Baron of our Lord the Eing.
Qliis Court ei^jojred the priyilege of proving Wills under the Seal of the Manor until
the custom ceased in the last century.

Overton Chapel is mentioned in the Archidiaoonal appropriation of the Church of
Lancaster to the PHory, in the year 1296, but the very early specimen of Anglo-
Korman architecture in the principal Doorway of the Chapd, would imply an earlier
foundation. The chevron and several rude figures still remain sculptured upon it ;
and the extraordinary thickness of the walls, indicates great antiquity. In 1738 the
small circular-headed windows, without mullions, were removed, and the present in-
congruous lights inserted. In 1650 the Parliamentary Commissioners reported that

VOL. II.] 8 h

442 llotMa etmminii^

This Curacy was formerly supplied at y« charge of y« Vicar of
Lane, [aster] till y« gift of 10^ p.[er] aii.[uum] by Hugh Cooper,
^n y« Vicar allowed all y« Small Tyths w*Mn this district. After
y« other addition by Gardiner, only 5^ p.[er] an.[num was] p** by
Dr. BusheU,^ [the] Vicar ; and since his death, nothing is allowed
by [the] Vicar. Curate's Ac<^' an.[no] 1725.

CofDtuf* 3. 4 m.[iles] ftom Lane, [aster, and] divided into 3 Townships,
viz. Overton, Middleton, Heaton; w*^ these Districts, viz. Sunder-
land infra Overton, Brows infra Middleton, Oxdiff and Oveangle
infra Heaton.

One Chap, [el] warden serves for y« 3 TownsP", [who is] chosen
Can.[onically.]

ft«n. [There is an] Ancient Seat at Heaton.

Oyeiton had antiently, but not of late, £4 per annum paid bj the Yioars of Lancaster ;
and that about the jear 1647, £40 was granted by the Gonunittee of Plundered
Ministers out of the Beotory of Bolton, which had, however, been reduced to £16
per annum, owing to the solicitation of one Mr. Chamberlaine, agent for Sir Henry
Compton, a delinquent, whereby their Minister, Mr. Thomas Fawoett, an honest
godly man, had lately gone from them for want of maintenance. There were eighty
fftmilies in the Chapelry, and they were six miles from the Parish Church, and so
surrounded by the flowing sea, twice in twenty-four hours, that they could not pass
to their Parish Church, and had no other Church nearer than Heysham, and that
three miles distant. They humbly pray for a settled maintenance and Minister, and
to be made a Parish ; and they will remove their Chapel to a more conyenient place
in Middleton, at their own charges. — Fori. Inq, Lamb. JAbr,

Orerton, or Waterrille, is a Parochial Chapelry in the gift of the Yioar of Lan-
caster.

3 Seth Bushell D.D. only son of Adam Bushell of Kuerden near Preston, by hu
wife Alice, daughter of John Loggan of G-arstang, was bom in the year 1621 ; a Com-
moner of St. Mary's Hall, Oxon, M.A. 1654, being then Minister of Whitley in York-
shire ; B.P. 1666, being then Minister of Euxton ; Yioar of Preston, in 1678 ; and Yioar
of Lancaster in 1681, where he died in 1684. He published aereral small Tractates and
Sermons, (Wood's Ai^u%, toL iv. p. 161-2, Bliss' ed.) It appears from his Pedigree,
recorded by him in 1666, that he married (1) Mary, daughter of Mr. Boger Faring-
ton, who died s.p. ; and (2) Mary, daughter of Mr. WiUiam StansfieLd of Euxton,
by whom he had issue, (see Whitb Chapbi., p. 428, Kote 2.) He was a loyal, pious,
and charitable man, and during his short Incumbency rebuilt the Parsonage House
of Lancaster (now being again rebuilt) % and having overcome the errors of early edn-
cation, like many others, wisely conformed to the Church. — Lamo. MSS, yoL xiL

9twMKji Of fliii0ttiilieniem. 448

Ant to y« Poor of Heaton by Will, [iam] West, 60^; w^is CfMirtts.
taken care of by y« proper OflBcers of y* Town.

Zraii^iNC*^ This Chap, [el] is very (ft'^ap.^ax.

Ancient. Certif.ped] 2» - 12» • (M4, ^tm

viz. Rent Charge, 6i.l8».4d; Tyth of Hay and Geese in Stalmine, ^^W.¥,
1^; Int.[ere8t] of 249^ given by Mr. Tite, (originally 324^, but
part lost;) lSy.09».0Oi; East.[er] Dues, 51.10«; Surp.[lice] fees,
21. V.[ide] Caton.

This Rent Charge is 20 Nobles, Settled by Deed of Rich.[ard]
Fleetwood Esq. of Rosse-Hall, given upon a Proviso y^ he and his
Heirs, owners of Rosse-Hall, sh^ have y« nomination of y« Curate ;

1 Dedicated to St James, fonnerly to St. Oswald. Value in 1834, £267. Begisters
begin in 1693.

In the 8th John the Monks of Fumess held lands in Stalmine and Stapeltone,
(Stainall) and in the 20th Henry III. Bobert de Stalmine, brother and heir of Wil-
liam de Stalmine, held his lands under the King, in Stalmine and Staniole; and
in the 20th Edward I. the Manor appears to hare been Tested in John de Stalmine,
Elina de Stalmine, widow, the Abbots of Fumess and Cockersand, Simon le derk,
and Adam de Stalmine, who all probably held as tenants of the Crown. In the
course of time the Abbey of Fumess obtained the whole Manor, which fell to the
King at the Dissolution. The reputed Manerial owner is Cornelius Bourne of Stal-
mine Hall Esq.

A Chiq»el existed here about the time of Heniy in. as Geoffirey le Balista (L'ar-
balastier,) and William de Stalmine, laymen, bind themselyee and their heirs for erer,
to the Church of St. Mary, nerer to sell the right of Patronage in the Chapel of
Stalmine, on any pretext whatever. In 1650 the Chapel was reported to be seren-
teen miles from Lancaster Church, and was endowed with the Small Tithes, yalued at
£10 a year, and that Mr. Fenney M JL. the Incumbent, abo reoeiyed £50 a year firom
the Committee of Plundered Ministers. — Pari, Inq, Lamb» lAbr, A sum of twenty
nobles a year, payable to the Minister of Stallmin Chapel, out of Clarkson's tenement,
and the North and South Carrs in Preeeall and Hackensall, was settled by Deed, on
the 14th of April 1687, by Biohard Fleetwood of BossaU Esq. (then styled Patron of
the IdTixig.) The Chapel was rebuilt in 1806, when the Patron Saint and architecture
were altered. The Vicar of Lancaster is the Patron.

A Chapel was built and consecrated at Poulton by the Sands, in 1745, and is Paro-
chial to Poulton, Bare, and Torrisholme, The Curate is nominated by the Yioar of
Lancaster.

444 fijotttU tf Mtrtemif^

but he [is J notwitlists^ nominated by [the] Vicar of Lane, [aster.]
V.[ide] Deed, an.[no] 1687, New Iteff,[Uter,']

20^ p.[er] an.[num was] given to y« Curate by Rob.[ert] Car-
ter,3 out of an Estate left to Pilling School, an. [no] . V. [ide]
Filling. The Clerk has 2d. for every house in the Cha-
pdry; Is. for every Marriage; 6d. for every Burial; 2d. for every
Churching : chosen according to the 91st Canon.

16 in.[iles] from Lane. [aster;] 4 m.[ile8] from Poolton.

The Presb. [yterian] m.[eeting-house] is very near the Chap-
pell. [?]
CoSDtuI 2. 2 Chap, [el] wardens for y^ 2 towns, [hips,] each of w^^ consists

of 2 hamlets; one [for] Stalmin and Stainall; the other [for]
PreesaU and Hackinsall.

Part of PreesaU is called Lower-end, and part Pilling-lane.
ftslU. Hackensall^ and Parox in Stalmine, and a Grange.

gt^Wntm ^^ erf is a School, Pounded by Rich.[ard] Fleetwood* Esq. of
i^cHooL ^^ Rosse-Hall, an. [no] 1695, and endowed w^ 20 marks p. [er]

an. [num,] charged upon Land in Hackensall.
The Nominat. [ion] of a Master is in y« Heir of y« Family, who

keeps y« Writings. V. [ide] Deed 1687, New Reg, [«*/«•.]

' Robert Carter, by Will dated Blst January 1710, and proyed at Biothmond, ga;ye
£20 to " Stalmin Chnroh ; the Stock shall stand, and the Minister shall hare the pro-
fit of it." Land, has however, been purchased with the Benefiu^i^s other legacies,
and this now remains a rent charge of 20s. a year. The Testator appears to hare
been an illiterate person, and his own lawyer.

' Hackensall was the property of Qeoffirey the Bowman, (ancestor of the Sherbumes,)
haying been granted to him by the Barl of Morton, afterwards King John. It passed
with Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Mr. James Pickering, in marriage to Biehard
son of Biohard Butler of Bawcliffe, in the reign of Henry YI. and was again conyeyed
in marriage in 1650 by Helen, daughter and coheiress of Heniy Butler Esq. to Williani
SV^e of Wedacre Esq. M.P. by whom it was sold to the Fleetwoods. It passed from
their successors, the Heskeths, by sale, and is now the property of James Bourne of
Heathfield House near liyerpool Esq.

^ The School was founded by Indenture dated the 14th of April 1687, and is one of
the many useful and charitable foundations of Bichsrd Fleetwood Esq. who died on
the 18th of April 1696, when his benefiM^ions came into operation.

9tnmxs of fliMunOenieKfk 445

Here is anotlier Free School in y^ same TownsP^ about a mile pfHing'lme
fipom y« other, founded by Ilob.[ert] Carter, an. [no] 1710, who^*/^*^"^
gave 21 acres and [a] half of land, worth about jE12*10> p.[er] if^aoL
8n.[nimi,] and 60^ in money.

[The] Right of Nomin. [ating] the Master is in Alice Carter,
widow, Rich.[ard] Pool, and Tho.[mas] Dickenson, Trustees.

Six acres is free land, and 15 acres lease land, purchased for
2000 years, in y* name of Tho. [mas] Dickenson, Trustee for the
School.

other gift to y* Poor but one pound p.[er] an.[num] to y« C^artts.

Poor of PreesaU, payable out of y« Land given by Rob.[ertJ
Carter to y^ School founded by him. [Certified by Alexander
Bagott A.B. Curate, July 19. 1725.]

mm%9m%^ Certif.[ied] lli.OO-* e^ap.V^X.
06^, viz. 8^ paid out of an Estate in y« ni«i. m. <^
Chappelry; 8i.l0«.6d out of y« Dutchy Rents.

This Chap, [el] was made Parochiall by a Faculty, in y« usuall
form, an. [no] 1712, v.[ide] Reff.[ister] B.[ook,'] 4, being rebuilt
by y* Inhab.[itants.]

6 m.[ile8] from [the] Par.[ish] Ch.[urch;] 5 m.[iles] from any
other.

It is served 3 Sund.[ays] in every month.

There are many Papists and Quakers in this Chappelry.

> Ffttron Saint unknown. Yalae in 18d4» £136. Begisten begin in 1714—1787.

Aldiongh not named in the perambidation of the Foreite of Lanoashire in the 12th
Henry m. yet in the Blet Henry III. the Yaocazy and Foreet of Wyersdale were
granted to Edmund Grouchbaok, the wages of Forestem and the Fee of the Master
Forester were fixed, and Yerderers appointed, so that Wyersdale had all the charao-
teristies of a superior Chase. The ancestors of the late John Fenton Gawthome Esq.
M.P. for Lancaster, held a portion of Wyersdale for several centuries. Their residence
wasWyreside.

In 1660 the Oh^iel was stated to be eight statute miles from the Parish Church,
and had noeired, time out of mind, £4 per annum out of the rerenue thereofl £90 per

446

ItotMa Ce0trini0te«

#dtO0L

ere is a Free School bnilt and endowed by Mr. Cawthom^^
who left 20^ p*[er] an. [nam] to a Master^ who is to be a
Graduate of Oxford or Cambridge^ and to be elected by y« 14
Trustees. All the Children of y^ Dale are to be taught Oratis.

An.[no] 1721, Rich.[ard] Bum of Garstang Par.psh] left 30*,
[the] Int.[erest] to [be paid to the] Master of y« School in Lower
Wyresdale, commonly called Cross Hill School, who shall con-
stantly teach School learning and y® Catechism.

jlO fn^tttut*

jtf . «. d,

Byn.... 0. 2. 8
Trl. ...0. 8.

Paid by Improp.

Fun

Pa{». No return.

1

1

It:

_ — r- -J

^tl^ltiLfiH,^ Certif.[ied] 22\ viz. 2(fi paid by [the]
Improp. [riator,] Mr. Clifton, a Papist. Surp.[lioe]
fees, 2^.

Curate Nominated by [the] Improp. [riator.]

amiTiai out of tlie Impropriate Bectory of Bolton, belonging to Sir Henry Compton
Knt. a delinquent, by Order of the Committee of Gbldsmith's Hall, bad been paid to
Mr. Thomas Benny B.A. a preaching Minister there, aboTO twelve years. — ParL I»q,
Lamb. lAbr, In 1781 the Chapel was rebuilt at an ezpenoe of £1,246 ; and again
rebuilt in 184B.

The Vicar of Lancaster appoints the Curate.

'William Cawthome Esq. in his Will dated the 22d of September 1688, recites that
there had been for a long time a Chapel in Wyersdale, and that there was a rery small
or no' maintenance belonging to it ; and also reeiting that he had formerly erected a
Free School in Wyersdale, and rebuilt a oonyenient house for a Schoolmaster ; and for
maintaining the said School, and for encouraging an orthodox preaching Minister to
officiate in the Cure of the said Chapel, conveyed to Abraham Partington, Mayor of
Lancaater, Seth Bushell B.I). Yicar of the same, Laurence Shaw, Yicar of Cockerham,
and others, the said School-house and certain lands, to pay out of the rents £16 a
year to the Sdhoolmaster for teaching fifty poor Scholars, and £8 a year to the Mi-
nister, requiring the Scholan to attend the Chapel erery Lord's Day momiDg and
afternoon, and on other days of luting and Thanksgiving, and the residue of the
rents to be expended in repairs, books, and for the relief of the Poor. In 1826 the
Income deriyed firom this Foundation was upwards of £129.

1 Dedicated to St Cnthbert. Value in 1884, £181. Begisters begin in 1679.

Lytham is the Lidun of Domuday^ and at that time contained two oaruoates of
land, supposed to hare been taken out of the Saxon Parish of Kirkham. King John,
when Earl of Morton, gare the two oaruoates to Biohard Fits Boger, who tranaferred

•Mwt5 of amomiBetneiitt* 447

This Church was given to j* Priory of Donelm towards build-
ing a Cell here. y.[ide] Mon.[asticon,'] supra.

An. [no] 1869^ [an] Inst.[itntion] to [the] Cell of Letham upon
[the] Pres.[entation] of [the] Mon.[astery] of Durham. Reg.
Charlton, f. 42.

It. [em J admission of a Prior upon [the] Pres.[entation] of
[the] same Mon.[asteryJ an. [no] 1430. R.[egi8ter] Bowet, f. 52.

One Township. CofDiuf. L

2 Churchwardens.

Lytham Hall.^

No School^^ nor Charities.

§

them to tbe Prior and Oonyent of Durham, along with the Churoh of the aame town,
and all things bebnging to that Church, that they might found a Benedictine Cell at
Lytham to the honour of S.S. Mary and Cuthbert ; which was erected accordingly.
Dr. Whitaker appears to doubt the genuineneea of thia donation, or the accuracy of
its deacription, as no appropriation of the CSiurch erer took place, and no Vicarage
was erer endowed.

The Manor and Adyowson passed to the Crown at the Dissolution, and were
granted in the year 1664 to Sir Thomas Holcroft, whose r c p r eso n tattve, Sir John
Hoharaft, oonreyed them, by sale, to Sir Cuthbert Clifton of Weetby, on the 14th of
Febmaiy 1606. They aie now held by his descendant, Thomas Clifton of Clifton
aad Lytham Esq. who is the owner of the Parish. The Baronetcy conferred upon
Sir Thomas Clifton Knt. in the year 1660, expired with his son Thomas, who died
Not. 12th, 1688, aged twenty, and has a monument at Kirkham.

A Churoh existed here in the thirteenth century, although it is not mentioned in
the Valor of 1291, probably on the ground of its being conyentual and not parochial.
In 1660 it was returned as ** Lithoomb, a Tery small Pariah, being only one Township,*'
Thomas Clifton Esq. a Pi^ist delinquent, being the Patron and Impropriator of the
whole Tithes, worth £29 a year. The Minister was Mr. William Armistead, who
had nothing but £60 a year from the Committee of Plundered Ministers. — PaH, Intq,
Lamdt. lAbr. The Churcb being too small was rebuilt In the year 1770, upon the
ancient Prioiy site { and owing to the great influx of temporary inhabitants during
the Bathing Season, the first stone of the existing Churdi was laid on the 20th of
March 1884, by Thomas Clifton Esq. the Loid of the Manor, who eontributed £600
towards the undertaking. It consists of a Tower, Nare, Aisles, and ChanceL The
Clifton Chapel is within a pardose.

' Lytham Hall, the seat of Mr. Clifton, is a stately mansion, rebuilt between the
yean 1767 and 1764^ with the principal front to the Bast, and decorated by a pedi-
ment which is supported by four Corinthian columns. The domestio Chapel is now
wed ae the serrants' haU.

fiatttta ffcstrfenat*.

V. S. lE^^^t 2r. *W«»aiS*-'S^ ^ron Wtre, C€rtif.[ied] 44*. lO*.

*• •■ * 1^^^' ™' *^'*''^' t^ ac«M,] 101; E88t.[er] Dues, w* 2 pre-

^I'o: »■. 8 fjs^^^lj scriptiona for Elswick and Out Aawcliff, 191; Eaat.

PiUd'inTiii* \W ^^^i] [er] Dues and Small Tyths from Wood FlumptoD, 5";

vtUbj'imia. some other small Tyths, 10*; Surp. [Uoe] fees, 5' ; Leg. [ac^] from

^l" gj Ralph Longworth, 5i p-[er] an. [num.]

1^1*^^ gp Patron, Mr. Johnson — since [Thomas] Clitherall, [who pre-
sented in 1715.]

* A. School-hoiwe wm built here b; Bichard Salthoiue before 1702, m in tbot year
£fi wMgirenfoT the nee of the Scboohtuiter b; the IBer. Mr. Threl&Q of Ljthun;
and other donatione haTing been made. Lands were bought in 1782, now prodomng
Tipwarda of £101 a year.

■ Dedicated to St. Miohael the AichangeL Tilae in 1BS4, £7S8. Begiiter* of'
B^>tum begin in 1669 ; and of Marriages and Bmi^ in 1662.

Upper BawcliHb, with Tamicar, ia the Tomuhip in which the village of St. Mi-
chad'a, on both gidae of the BiTer Wyre, is situated. Hie Manor of Upper Baw-
olifib — the BoudecUffof AwKfdiiy^waa held bjHerrey, the grandfather of nieo-
bttld Walter. MatUda^ widow of Theobald Walter, in the dth John, hdd the aime ;
and her eon, Theobald le Botiler, in the SSd Henry m. was posseeeed of the Manor
of Bontheolife, nod lands in Bouthclire md Mid BouthoIiTe. The Manor of Upper-
rswoliffb waa in the poMesaiou of John de Bigmayden in the 16th Edwaid H. and
hia daoghtor and hetreae Joan, conreyed it^ in marriage, to Bir John de Oonpland,
who appear* to bare held it under the bmily of De Qhynes, or Coney, desoradaat*
of the lAnoasten, Barons of EendaL The Uaoor paased from the Conpland* to the
Southwortha, and was oonreyed, in marriage, before the 47th Edward IIL by EUee,
daughter and heiress of William de Bouthworth, to !Sobert Urswiok of Urswick,
whose gnuid-daogfat«r married John, third son of Sir Blohard Eirkby of Eirkby, and
the Muior was vested in his deeoendant in 1631. In this year Thomas Westby of
Mowbrech Esq. purchased Upper Bawdilfe Hall and the Estate^ which were settled
upon his son, Major George Weatby; and being sold by the Bepablioan Conunissionn
in 1663, were repurchased for the &unily. On the marriage of Thomas Weetby of
Upper Bawclifib Esq. (who died in 1762,) with Margaret, daughter and heiress of
William Shattleworth of TnmoTer Hall Esq. and of his wife Bridget, daughter and
cofaeireea of John Weetby of Mowbreok Beq. the Estates derolTed on the younger
hranoh of the fiunify, th«n seated at Upper Bawoliffe. On the death of Thomas
Weitby Esq. in 1329, they passed to Goo^e, grandson of Oeorg« Weetby of Upper
Bawclifib Esq. in whose representative they still continue.

The Church of St. Michael — the Micheleecherohe of iliMiesili^—was one of the

•eaners of 9^motttiDetne00. 449

Kirby upon Wire, val.[uej 20 marks. Patron, [the] Coll.[ege]
of Battelsfyld. MS. L.

An. [no] 1538, Patrons, [the] Master or Warden of y« Cdlege of
Battelfylde, et qosdem loci confiratres. Inst, \ituti(m\ B. [ook,'] l,p.85.

three Churches of Amoundemess daring the Heptarchy, Preston and Kirkham being
the other two. King John appears to have jio'ssessed the Advowson, as he presented
to the Liying ; but in 1846 Henry, Earl of Lancaster, was the Patron. ** Eod'ia S'ci
Mich'is sup' Wyrr," was valued in 1291, at ^666. 18s. 4d.

Roger Tye, Clerk, in the year 1403, founded the Collie of Battlefield ; and Henry
IV. the nominal Founder, gare to the Master of the House, and his successors, the

*

Adyowson of the Church of Michaelliskirk. In the 4th Henry VI. Boger Yve
reoeired a confirmation of the Foundation ; and the Eing, by his Will dated the 80th
of October 1444, grants to the perpetual Chaplains of Battelfield, and their successors
for ever, the Tithes and Emoluments of the Church of St. Michael's de Wyre, to be
equally diyided amongst them, on condition of repairing the Chancel. This Licence
of Appropriation was confirmed in the 1st Henry YII. 1485. Since the Dissolution
of the Chantries and Monastic foundations, the Adyowson has been yested in difl*erent
Pkitrons, and in 1788 was obtained by Joseph Hornby Esq. whose nephew is the
present excellent Vicar and Patron.

An Act of Parliament was obtained by the Bev. Hugh Hornby, the Patron, in'
1816, to commute the Tithes of Hay, Vicarial Tithes, and Easter Offerings, for a
Com Bent, securing a dear annual sum of £700, liable to be increased and yaried,
but not to be diminished below that sum, according to the price of Wheat in the
markets of Preston and Lancaster, on an ayerage of ten years.

The Church, rebuilt about the time of Henry VIII. consists of a Tower, Naye, lat-
teral Aisles, and Chancel, with a Chantry Chapel on the North side dedicated to St.
Katherine, and formerly the Mausoleum of the yery ancient family of Butler of Baw-
diffia, whose arms, caryed in stone, still remain. The East and North Windows
contain emblematical pictures of three of the Seasons — Winter, Spring, and Summer.
In 1650 ''Michael's, a Vicaridge called St. Michael's, situated in Tamiker,*' was
returned aa being in the Patronage of Alexander Johnson Esq. the Impropriator,
(except of portions of the Tithes of Tamiker which were impropriated to Bobert White
Gent, and then under sequestration for his delinquency, and worth £10 per annimi.)
The Earl of Deyonahire and Nicholas Shuttleworth Esq. paid each 10s. a year for the
Tithes of Insklp, to Mr. Johnson, being a rent due by prescription; and also
£5. 6d. 8d. for Tithes in Bawdifib, by prescription. Value of the Tithes to Mr.
Johnson, £245 per annum. There was a Vicarage-house and ten acres of Glebe in
Tarmker, worth to the Vicar £5, and all the small Tithes throughout the Parish.
The Earl of Deyonshire paid to the Minister of Miohad*s, 2s. a year for a Water
Com Mill ; 2s. a year for smaU Tithes ; and lOd. a year for Tithe of Hay, by pre-
scription ; Nidiolas Shuttleworth Esq. paid the Minister lOd. a year for Tithe Hay ;
the Inhabitants of Blswick paid hian ISs. 4d. for hay, hemp, and flax; and the

VOL. II.] 3 M

450 jlotttto etntxim%i»*

[3d Edward VI. Patrons^ George Kyrkby and Nicholas Law-
rinson Oents. pro hac vice^ by Grant of Jolin Hossey^ Master or
Warden of the College of Battelfylde and Fellows. IbJ]

An. [no] 1573^ the Bight of Nominating y® Clerk of this Parish
was adjudged by Decree of y® Bp to belong to one Mr. Butler.
Reff.[ister] S.lpok,'] 2, p. 253.

An. [no] 1629^ the King presented. In8t,\iiuii(m] B.[pok,'] 2,
p. 91. The same Vicar was Instituted an. [no] 1628, upon y*
Pre8entat.[ion] of Will.[iam] Johnson esq. lb. p. 114.
IBalU. Upper Bawdifife,^ and Out Bawdiffe.^

CotDtuf* Towns, [hips] 5, for w<* there are 5 Churchwardens — Upper Baw-
cliff cum Tamiker, Out Bawcliff, Eccleston-Magna, Elswick, In-
kipp cum Sowerby,* [and Woodplumpton.]

Inhabitants of Sowerbj Id. an acre for their Tithe Hay, amonnting to about Oe. 8dL
per annum, bj prescription. The Incumbent was Mr. William Braye, and the Liring
realized him £60 per annum. — PtxrL Inq. Lamb, Libr.

s Upper Bawdiffe, latterly, called White Hall, was the ancient Manerial house, but
the present building, of the time of Charles I. is in a state of decay, although the
Gatewi^ and large mullioned windows indicate its ancient respectability. Its former
and present owners, the Westbys, being Boman Catholics, it contains a Chapel and a
place of concealment for recusants. It is tenanted by a feumer.

' Out Bawdiffe was the possession of Theobald Walter, Chief Butler of Ireland,
who gaye it to Sir Biohard le Botiller, [who died 9 Edw. X.] ancestor of the Butlers
of Bawdiffe, who hdd the Manor from the time of Henry III. until forfeited by the
attainder of Henry Butler Esq. who engaged in the Bebdlion of 1715, and whose
only son, Bichard Butler Esq. died in prison the following year. The Estates were
sold, by Tirtue of an Act of Parliament, in the year 1718, and purchased by Thomas
Boe Qent. whose daughter and heiress married John fflrance of Little Ecdeeton Esq.
whose only son, John fihince Esq. hdd this Manor, and dying s.p. in 1817, derifled
his Estates to Thomas Wilson of Preston Qent. whose wife was one of his nert
of kin. Mr. Wilson assumed the surname of ffinmce, and at his death, 9 Nor. 1828^
was succeeded by his son, Thomaa Bobert Wilson ffirance Esq. the present Ijord
of the Manor of Out Bawdiffe. Some parts of the Hall are very old, and it waa
the testamentary injunction of the late John ffrance Esq. that the South front of
the house should ne?er be altered! It is surrounded by what Cowley hails, aa
** old patrician trees so great and good,*' and is enlivened by a Bookery and •
fieroniy.

* A new Church at Inskip, built on a site given, with £500, by the Earl of Derby,
and endowed by the Bav, William Hornby M.A. Yioar of St. MiohaeVs, was oonse-
crated on the 27th of December 1848, by the Lord Bishop of BCancheater.

SMtiets of AmotttiBetnedis* 451

n Upper Rawdiff there is a School taught, the Int. [erest] iEUdndiff
of 301 being given some time agoe by Rich, [ard] Comall* ***'^
for J* maintenance of a Poor Schoohnaster in this TownsP, viz.
an. [no] 1708.

The Master is nominated by y« Vicar and 2 other Trostees.

Here is a School erected long agoe by [the] Inhab. [itants J cal- #rrst
led Copp School, but never endowed till lately, viz. 1714; one^^^H^^
Will,[iam] Fyld [of Great Eccleston yeoman,] left [the] Int. [erest]
of y« Remainder of his Pers.[onal] Estate, amount, [ing] to about
250^, for a Master to teach Poor Children here, or in some other
part of this townsP, [by Will dated 26th Sept. 1719.]

[The] Master [is] Nom.[inated] byTho.[mas] and Jon.[athan]
Dobson, Wil.[liam] Townsend, and their heirs.

The same WiU.[iam] Fyld gave 40» p.[er] an.[num,] to be paid
out of land, to y^ poorest householders of this townsP.

An. [no] 1721, Tho.[mas] Clitherall Gent, left by Will, 5i p.[er] ^ttat
an.[num,] charged upon his Lands and y® Advowson of y* Vicar- jjJotS'^^c,
idge, for a Master to Instruct 25 of y^ poorest children in Great ^tlioC
Eccleston and Inskipp cu Crosmore.

[The] Master to be chosen by Rich, [ard] Grombleholm,^ Clerk,
[Vicar of St. Michael's 1715 — 29,] and his heirs; and if he
remove to Eop-School, or ever enjoy W™ Field's Gift, then ano-
ther to be chosen.

ftint by Tho.[mas] Enowles^ of Sowerby an. [no] 25 Char. C^gxitM.
[les] 2d, [8th Feb. 1686,] for y« Poor of Sowerby, 50» p.[er]

* The Charity Commisdonen in the year 1825, reported that the only endowment of
this School, whioh had lately been rebuilt by subscription, on the site of one that fell
down about sixteen years preceding, is " supposed to have been given by Thomas Cli-
iheralL*' The Master was appointed by the Subscribers to the building of the School,
and by Mr. Biohard Harrison of Singleton, who acted as Trustee. No children were
taught free.

* His son, the Ber. William Oromlehohne M.A. Vicar of St. Michael's, married
Anne, third daughter of Alexander Butler of Kirkland Esq. and of his wife Elisabeth,
daughter of Thomas Parker of Browshohne Esq.

7 The evil of non distribution was of long continuance, as it was not until the year
1782 that a Decree of the Court of Chancery placed the Charity on its right founda-

452 Itotttia eeistrinwfo.

aa.[niiin^] Inskipp, 50" p.[er] an.[num^] and Tamacre, 50 p.[eF]
an.[nuin^] out of Lands in Goosnargh and Chippen. Not distri-
buted as it ought to be.

Given by John Hudson 40* P-[er] an.[num] to 4 poor house-
holders of this TownsP^ an. [no] 1722^ ''to buy them such things
as they stand most in need of against the great yearly Festival of
the Nativity .''

l^Smieit,' Certif.[ied] an.[no]
1722^ y^ nothing belongs to it. This
Chap, [el] was built about an. [no] , by [the] contrib.[utions]

of [the] Inhab.[itants] and neighbours. It stands upon a Com-
mon called the Wastes or Leys^ uninclosed.

Divine Service was performed in this Chap.[el] in y« memory
of several! now living ; but for many years together [it] was used
for a School^ till King Jam** Toleration, w"* the Presbyterians
seized it, and have used it for a Meeting ever since. V, \icar] of
S^ Mich" Account, an.[no] 1722.

tion. The Estate of Lowdacales consiBts of fifty-six acres, and the rent has ranged
for some time between £85 and £116 per annum. "All taxes to the Chnrch and
King/' and necessary repairs, are defirayed out of the income, according to the Testa*
tor*s Will. — Chariiy Com. Bep,

1 This Meeting House at Elswick Lees is said by Galamy to have been founded by
Mr. Cuthbert Harrison in the year 1672, by Boyal Licence ; and although he held
Presbyterian opinions it has passed into the hands of the Independents. Mr. Harri-
son was bom at Newton in the Parish of Kirkham, educated at Cambridge, i^pointed
by the Berenth Classis to Singleton Chapel, (see p. 428, Note,) and afterwards ob-
tained a Licence from Bishop Wilkins to preach in his own house at Bank-field. He
died in 1680. — See p. 420. His descendant was Richard Harrison of Bank-field
Esq. whose daughter and heiress married in 1848, Mr. Edwards Atkinson.

There appears, however, to hare been a Chapel at Elswick in 1660, as the Commis-
sioners in that year reported that the Lihabitants of Elswick being fiftj families, and
fiye miles from their Parish Church, " have lately, with the voluntary and free assist-
ance of some neighbouring towns, erected a Chappell in Elswick aforesaid." £60 a
year had been granted by the Committee of Plundered Ministers to suoh a Minister as
should be approved by the said Committee, but none had then been either elected or

Seasmg of AmowMttmnn* 468

<9|P^i A Chappell newly erected^ viz. Augm.

an [no] 1723^ near Elswick^ w<^ being
never Consecrated and in [the] possession of Diss, [enters^] it was
thought more proper to bnild a new Chap, [el] here j^ to seize
upon that.

^^proved. — ParL Inq, Lamb. Libr. In another part of the Inquisition there is a re-
oommendation that Elswiok shonld be made a separate Parish, with additions to its
extent.

1 Dedicated to 8t. Anne. Value in 1834, £66. Begisters at St. Michael's.

Although Copp Chapel is near Elswick it is situated in the Township of Qreat
Eodeston. The following letters respecting the foundation of this Chapel are ad-
dressed hj John fflrance Esq. and the Bey. William Dickson, Yicar of Kirkham,
[1720 — 1744^] to William Stratford Esq. Commissary of Bichmond and Secretary
to Bishop Gastrell : —

''Eooleston p*Ta» Aug. 8, 1724. Upon some discourse with Mr. Dixon about Copp
Chapell, I give you the trouble of this. When Subscript* were desired tow^ buildi
the s' Chapell, it was proposed and intended to be not only for the use of the Inhab**
of St. Michael's but likewise for the use of sereral other Townships which lye in the
Parish of Kirkham, remote from their Parish Church ; and the Inhab*" of this Parish
hare Contrib' more towards the Buildv than those of St. Michael's, and w^ have
erected it within "Kirkham Parish if the situat" had been thought equally oonrenient.
And, likewise, the person who promised to raise the hundred pounds tow<** the
Queen's Bounty, gave a Note touching the same, with conditions in &TOur of Kirk-
ham Parish.

"Before the s^ Chapell was erected the two Yicars of the Parishes af* were together,
seemed to encourage our proceedings, and talked amicably and agreeably ab^ Nomi-
nal, &0. ; but since the Chapell was built, several proposals have been made to w^'*
tiie Yioar of Kirkham has consented, but [Mr. Biohard Crombleholme,] the Vicar of
St. Michael's, [1716 — 1729,] seems to dislike them. One of the s<* proposals was,
that the determin*^ of that affair might be referred to the Bishop of Chester, whose
generous offiar to procure a hundred pounds towards the Endowment of this Chapell,
gave great encouragement to our undertaking the building thereof. Some persons
hare refused to pay their Subscript"*, on pretence that the Vicar of St. Michael's has
departed from former proposals ; but we hope (if these differences c<* be amicably set-
tled to the satis&ction of the neighb**) that not only the old, but likewise sereral new
Subscript"* might be procured, especially if our gratefixl Behaviour for by-past ftyours
may continue his Lordship's Countenance and Encouragement ; and we desire you to
represent this matter to him as favourably as you think it will bear.

« Pursuant to the Intimat" in my former Letter, Mr. Dixon and some others went
to view Mr. Cromblehobne's Estate in Qoosnargh for w^ he asks £440. If the

454 ^tftia etntxitmifk.

Augm.[ented] an. [no] 1724, w^ 2001; one lOtf by [the] D*^ of
St. Panl'8,2 [and the] other lOO^ by Contrib.[ution.]

atiav^Var. |jg| ««9yi.«|Ky2r«N,' Certif.[ied]

gtsS 3i*0"*0^, viz. Rent Charge upon [an]
Estate of John Warren Esq. 1^; Int.[ere8t] of 40^, 2^. It sh^ be
601, but 201 ig thought to be Lost.

Bishop would please to continue his favour and to appoint whom he thinks proper to
treat for the same, or any other Estate that may be thought more advantageous, the
same w' be very gratefully accepted by his and your obliged and humble Serv',

" (Signed) Johk ffrakcb."

'* S', This account from Mr. France you may observe is of a piece with that which
I sent : and I am humbly of opinion that as Mr. France has been the chief instrument
in Promoting this building of Copp Chapel, so it would be agreeable to the people if
he cou'd have a share in the Nomination, together with the Vicars of St. Michael and
TCirkham. Whatever you do in this afiair ought to be thankfully acknowledged by
all that wish well to our good Church, and always shall be by your obliged and hum.
ServS (Signed) Wm. Dioksok."

GastreU*s MSS, in the Beffitiry, Chester.

The Chapel is a brick building, and in 1841 a small Tower and Burial ground were
added. The Yioar of St. Michael's is the Patron. There is a Parsonage House.

' The Dean of St. Paul's was Henry Q^odolphin D.]). brother of Sidney, Earl of
Godolphin K.G-. He was the Yolpone of Br. Sacheverell's £unoiiB Sermon. Insti-
tuted Provost of Eton in 1695, and Installed Dean of St. Paul's in 1707, which dig-
nity he resigned in 1726. He gave £4,000 for the augmentation of small Livings, in
conjunction with the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, and £1,000 to the Corpo-
ration of the Sons of the Clergy ; and to their Collection, on the Thursday before he
died, he sent £100. He gave large simis in private charity for the relief of poor
fiunilies and of single persons in distress. He died at Eton, of which College he had
been Provost thirty-seven years, on the 29th of January 1732-8, aged eighty-four, in
the possession of all his fiunilties. A Whig in politics, he was always gentle, moderate^
and conciliating, and like his celebrated brother, was a warm advocate of what was
called Beligious Liberty. Several Livings in the old Diooese of Chester were aug-
mented out of his Fund.

> Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £96. Begisters begin in 1608.

The Manor was held by Bobert de Stockport, who di^ in the 28d Henry m.
leaving a daughter and heiress Joan, married (1) to Nicholas de Eton, and (2) to Sir
John de Ardem. By her first husband she had issue Bobert, to whom the second
husband released all his right in the Manors of Plumpton and Formby, in the year

9tmns of fliiioitsiDenie»0« 455

4 m.[iles] from [the] Par.[is1i] Church; is duly served by a
Curate.

Given by Jam.[es] Taylour, 60^; by John Ciosse^ 20*; [by]
Tho.[ina8] Hankinson, 10*. Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1725.

Woodplumpton.3 R«^

ft( is a Free School to w^ was given by Alice Nicolson^ i^aah
IW, and by John Hudson^ 20*.

ibnt [before 1672,] to the Poor by Geo.[rge] Nicolson, €^nxititi.
210*; by Tho.[mas] Hoghton 8* p.[er] an.[numj in Land.

1340 s and aho a son Nicholas de Eton, who, by Deed, 8.d. oonfinned to Margeiy de
Ardem the Manor and Adyowson of Woodplumpton, which Joan his mother had
granted to the said Margery, daughter of Sir John de Ardem. — Watson's Hiitory of
ihe Homte qf Warren^ toL ii. p. 233. Ciceley, sister of Robert de Stockport, and tdti-
mately heiress of the Etons, who assumed the surname of Stockport, oonveyed the
Manor, by marriage, to Sir Thomas Warren of Poynton, in whose descendants it
continued untU Elizabeth Harriet, only ehild of Sir G^rge Warren, transferred it^
by marriage, in the year 1777, to Thomas James, Viscount Bulkeley, whose kinsman,
Lord de Tabley, is the present Lord of the Manor.

The Chapel, with a low Tower, existed in the year 1677, was rebuilt in 1630, and
has undergone many alterations since ; in 1660 the Chapelry was stated to be three
miles in length and two milee in breadth, and comprised two hundred and twenty
fimiiles. ''The Minister of Michael's had formerly paid to the Minister of the
Paroohiali Chappel of Wood Plumpton £4 per annimi, out of the Small Tithes of
the whole Parish." The Committee of Plundered Ministers allowed £60 per annum ;
but there appears to have been no Curate at the time of the Surrey. — Pari. Jb^,
Lamb, lAbr,

The Vicar of St. Michael's appoints the Curate. There is a Parsonage-house.

' Woodplumpton Hall was the ancient Manor-house of the Warrens, and was pur-
chased by the Very Bey. Dr. Thomas Calyert, the late Warden of Manchester, in
whose ftmily it is now vested.

' Alice Nicholson of Bartel, widow, gave £100 by Deed dated the 4th of January
1661, ''for the maintenance of a Eree School within the Manor of Woodplumpton ;"
and by Will dated the 1st of February 1664, gaye to the said School £10 more. The
Sohool-house was built in 1666, aooording to the date over the door.

^ John Hudson of Lea» by WiU dated the 22d of February 1676, gaye to the
Feoffees of the said School for its augmentation £20, on condition that the heirs of
the house where he then dwelt should be admitted, free of ohaige, for eyer.

^tftia CtntcitMi*.

0ei2r«N,> [in the Ftldb.] Certif.[ied] 281-18*-
05^d, viz. Qlebe Land, [13 acres,] aad Church Yard,
21-9'Od; prescript, [ion] for T^th Hay, Hemp, and
Flax, 5i-15'-5'i; Tyth Hay, in kind, 8".18»; Ea8t.[er]
Sp!' :!!::: s? dnes, as let, 9^; Tyth Geese, Hemp, and Flax, in kind, as 1^,
"■*■ I'-lS-j Tyth PigB, I'-li-O"; Surp.pice] fees, B'.

An. [no] 1687, IUch.[ardJ Fleetwood esq. of Rosse-Hall, gave

■ Dedicated to St. Chad. V&lue in 1834, £267. B^tera begin in 1591-

Foltun at the Domesdaj Surrey, oonsiitcd of tvo carucates, one of irtiieh when
Bogsr of Poictien founded the Prior; of I^ncuter, belonged to the Obarcb, which
prorea that within ten yean after the Conqnest a Churoh eiiiled here, although it is
not incloded in the great record. The Church and Manor were given by the nid
Boger to the Prior; of LancSBfer, although by his defection, the Priory had a ques-
tionable title I and in the reign of Bichard I. Theobald Walter qnitclaimed his right
in the AdTOwlon to the Monks of Sees and Lancaster. The Abbot of Cockenand
haTing claims in this Parish agreed with the Prior of Lancaster on a compoaition of
the Tithe* of I^ncaster, Pulton, and BiscopbcTin : " Compotitio super Deciniis Bc-
oles. de Polthona, Anno 7" Be^ Johaonis."— fSorf* JfifcaHaa. in tie AmffmeiUatioit
Office, marked i. 9 ; Xhicarel's Sepert. Vic. In the year 1216 John Bomanua, Arch-
deacon of Bichmond, confirmed a moiety of this Ohnrcb to the Priory of Lkncaater,
on the conditions mentioned in the account of BiaPHAlf, (aee p. 999.) Ordinatio
Tioarin de Pulton AJ>. 1276. In the Roister of Charters belonging to the Priory of
8t. Uary, in Lancaster. Harl. BO). No. 3764. Ducarel's Bep. Vic.

In 1291 tlie Ticarage was ralued at £6. 13e. 4d.

£] the 2d Henry T. the Priory of Lancaster waa held, in Truit, for the Abbess
and OonTBnt of Bion, and pending certain negotiations, William Kenwolmenh,
the Lord Cbanoelloi, presented a Tiear to Poolton. The grant of the ConTcnt,
in frank afanoigne, was eiecnt«d by the Tmsteee in 1480; and in the same year the
Tioarage was endowed or augmented l^ the Abbees, and William de Cronkeebagh
instituted on the presentation of the Oonrent of Sion. In the 11th Henry Till, the
Tithe Sheaf of Pulton and a Tenement were leased to the Ticar by the Conrent, to
enable him the better to keep and maintain bis honse in Fulton.

At the Disaohition, the Manor and Advowson paased to the Crown, and Bdward
TI. pre*enl«d to the Liring in 1662. Shortly afterwnida the; were alienated, and
became Tested in John Fleetwood oF Penwortham Esq. ; and whilst ^le former de>
soended to his repreeraitatiTe, Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood Bart H.P. the latter is
now vested in the Ber. Cbarles Hesketh H.A.

In 1660 the Parliamentary Commissioners retnmed Sir Paul Fleetwood Knt. as
Patron of the Ticarage of Ponlton i and that the TiUiea of Ponlton, Harton, and

SeaiUnrs ^f AmoutilifnieM* 457

10* p.[er] an.[imm] to this Churchy charged upon Lands. V.[ide]
Deed in New Reg,\ister.']

An. [no] 1717, Mr. Bains gave to [the] Min.[ister] of Foolton
six Acres of Land, [of the] val.[ue of] 4i«10» p.[er] an. [num.]

Patron, Mr. Fleetwood of Rosse-Hall.

Pulton 121. Patr.[on, the] Ab.[be88] of Syon. MS. L.

[The] Church of Pulton was given to [the] Pri. [ory] of Lan.
[caster] by y® Founder of y* Pri. [ory,] ; and an. [no]

1226, 2 p*» of y« Tyth Com of Pulton [were] settled on [the] Ab.
[bey] of Sayes and [the] Pri. [ory] of Lane, [aster.] MS. JB6.[or,]
v.[ide] Mon.{a8tic(m^ 8up.[ra.]

[A] Mediety of [the] Church of Pulton [was] confirmed to
[the] Ab.[bey] of Sayes and [the] Pri. [ory] of Lan. [caster] by
[the] A.[rch] Deac.[on] of Richm^, an. [no] 1246, w^ [a] grant
of y® other mediety after y« death of y® then poesessour, provided
that w^ both parts shall accrue a Vicar shall be presented by the
said Ab.[bey] and Pri. [ory,] who shall receive 20^ P-[er] an.
[man.] MS. Eb.\or,'\ v.[ide] Bispham.

BiBphftin cum Norbieke, were Impropriate to Baron Bigbye, and worth £90 a jear ;
that the Tithes of Haidhome cum Newton, Carlton, Thornton, and part of Bispham
cum Norbreke, were Impropriate to Sir Thomas Tildeslej, a delinquent, under sequos*
tration, and worth £148 per annum ; and that the Tithes of Layton were Impro-
priate to Alexander Bigby Esq. and worth £20 lOs. per annum.

The Yicarage-house of Poulton and two acres of Glebe were worth SOs. a year.
The small Tithe, and Tithe Salt, &c. were formerly worth £60 per annum, but were
then Talued at £55 per annum. The Vicar was Mr. Peter Whyte, formerly an able
and painful Minister, but then yery aged and infirm, so that the Cure was supplied
by Mr. John Biierley, who had an allowanoe ; but the Parishioners desired that he
might have further allowanoe and encouragement there. The Township of Marton
was described as being five miles ficom Poulton, and the Inhabitants, in the Winter
season, being for the most part debarred by the water from attending any Church,
desired that they might be made a Parish, haying Layton, Layton Bakes, and Black-
pool, being adjoining hamlets, annexed, and that a Church or Chapel might be erected,
a Minister appointed, and a competent maintenanoe allowed. — Pari, Inq, Lamb, lAbr.
voL ii

The Tower is of the time of Charles I. The Chancel was repaired in 1672. In
1786 a Brief Was obtained for Poulton Church ; and the Nave was rebuilt in 1751.
TUd fleetwood Chapel, within a pardose, contains numerous monuments of that
fionily.

VOL. II.] 3 N

458 fi^otitia etfOtimf^in.

An. [no] 1246^ the Church of Pulton and [the] Chapel of Bis-
copham were approp.[riated] to [the] Priory of Lane. [aster;] and
at [the] Diss, [olution] of [the] Priory [were] given to [the] Mon.
[astery] of Syon, who were then [the] Patrons. MS, Eb.[ar.']

An. [no] 1422^ [a] Vic.[ar was] instit. [uted] upon [the] pre-
sentation of W.[illiam] Eynwolment^ [Kenwolmersh] Treasurer
[and Chancellor] of Eng.[land,] to whom^ w^ others^ H.[enry] 5
had lately granted the Priory of Lane, [aster J Sec, Reg,\i8ter of]
Archd.[eac<m] Bowet, fol. 15^ 16.

An. [no] 1552, [the] Crown presented. Inst.litutian] B.lpokjl
1, p. 40.

An. [no] 1565^ John Fleetwood of Penwortham [presented.] lb.

An. [no] 1674, Bich.[ard] Meetwood, Patron. B,[ook,] 2, p. 144.
CofDiuf. 6. [There are 5 townships,] for w**' 5 Churchwardens serve, viz.
Poolton, Stayning, (divided into 2 Hamlets, Hardhom and New-
ton;) Marton, (Great and Little;) Carlton, (Great and Little;)
Thornton, (Stajmoe, [Stainall,] Holmes, and Trummall.)

Every Easter y« old Churchw.[arden8] write down every one
three [persons] living in y«JtownsP for w*^*' he serves, out of w^
the Min. [ister] chboses one.

The Clark is chosen by y« Heir of Stayning Hall, now Joh[n]
Mayfield Gent, a Papist, 1722.
IBolU. BossaU,^ Burn,^ Staining,^ [and] Carlton.^

^ Bossall Hall was originally a Gbnnge belonging to the Abbey of Bieulacres in tlie
county of Stafford, and given to that House by King John, at the request of Baaulph
de Blundeyill, Earl of Chester, the Founder. In the Slst Henry ILL the Manor of
Busall was oonfirmed to the Abbey. Bosall was held at the Beformation by Q«ofge
Allen, on a Lease granted by his cousin, the Abbot of Dieulacres. This Gteorge was
the £ftther of John Allen, whose second son, William Allen D.D. was bom here in
1682, educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and in 1558 elected a Canon of York. On
the accession of Queen Elizabeth he retired to Louyain, and founded a College at
Douay for English Scholars, supported by a grant firom the Pope. He united with
Father Persons, and other disloyal Jesuits, in persuading Philip II. of Spain to under-
take the Conquest of England, and restore the Papal authority. As a reward for his
eeryioes, he was appointed Archbishop of Mechlin, and elected Cardinal of St. Ifartin
in Montibus. He was a zealous, deroted, and consistent member of his Church ; and
although his unnatural hostility to his Queen and country was powerless, no part of

IBeaners of ^mnutiBenu^^* 459

Sb^Wif endowed by Mr. [James] Bains [of Ponlton, by ^amtan
Will dated 6th Jan. 1717,] w^ W p.[er] an.[num,] in *^^"^*
Land.

[The] Master [is] Noni.[inated] by 7 Trustees in y« TownsP.

[Here is] another School, endowed by Mr. Bains^ w*^ [a] tAtirtan
house and Land [of the] val.[ue] of ab* 10^ p.[er] an. [num.] A^ftflo^-

[The] Nom.[ination] of y« Master [is vested] in 7 Trustees of
y« TownsP.

[Here is] another School endowed by Mr. Bains w*^ [a] house ^Uiininu
and Land val. [ued] at near 20^ p. [er] an. [num.] #€^001.

[The] Master [is] Nom. [inated] by seven Trustees, pursuant to
Mr. Bains' Will.

its fiiilure was attributable to the Cardinal. He died in 1594 at Borne, apparently
lamenting his former political hatred towards England. — Lane. MSS, vol. xii. At
the Dissolution of Dieulaores the rerersion of the Bossall Lease was purchased of
Heniy Vlll. by Edmund Fleetwood Esq. whose grandson succeeded to the Estate in
1588. This property was conveyed in marriage, in 1733, by the daughter and heiress
of Edward Fleetwood Esq. to Soger Hesketh of North Meols Esq. and descended to
his representative, Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood Bart. He has, however, lately aban-
doned BossaU as a place of residence.

' Bum Hall, with a domestic Chapel, having an oak wainscot richly carved, now
desecrated, is a building of the fifteenth century, and was anciently a seat of the
Westbys of Mowbreck, firom whom it passed, in marriage, with the daughter and
heiress of John Weetby Esq. in the early part of the last century, to Mr. Benison,
the last of whose family is said to have ruined himself by an absurd attempt to adapt
the husbandly of Virgil's Cfeorgict to the climate of England. It is now a fiurm-
honse, and belongs to the Bossall Estate.

^ Staining Hall was purchased by George Singleton Esq. of Sir Thomas Holte of
Orislehurst, in the time of Henry Vlll. and the fiimily continued here at Dugdale's
Visitation. — L<mc, MSS, vol. xii. The village of Singleton Thorpe, in this peninBnla»
was washed away by a sudden irruption of the sea, in 1555.

* Carlton was in the possession of a family of the local name in the 5th Henry III.
And continued to be their Manerial residence until the death of Laurence Carlton,
in 1558, when Margaret, wife of Thomas Almond, was his sister and heir. The
Sherbumes of Stonyhurst afterwards held the Manor, which passed, by the Will
of Sir Nicholas Sherburne, in 1717, to his only daughter and heiress, Mary, Duchess
of Norfolk, who, by WiU, in 1749, settled her real Estate upon Edward Weld of
Lulworth Castle Esq. and his heirs male. Joseph Weld Esq. is now the owner of the
Manor, and the Hall is a farm-house.

• The Bev. Thomas Bryer, the present Incumbent of Marton and Master of the

460 Itotttia etnMetmin.

Csrlton A School [was] erected by seyerall of [the] luhab. [itants. The]
M^t^oal. Revenue [is] about 7^ p. [er] an. [num,] viz. 40« given by S' Ni-
cholas Sherburn, [in 1697;] 40» by W« Palmer, [Bamber? in
1688;] 20» a y' by Mrs. [Mai^aret] BickerstaflF, [in 1716;] 20»
by EUz. [abeth] Wilson, [in 1680 ;] 10» by John Wilson. It was
bmlt upon j* Waste by leave of S' Nicho.[las] Sherboum, Lord
of y^ Manour, [who stipulated to have permission to keep his
Courts in the School of Carlton.]

[The] Master is elected by [the] Exect* and relations of y*
Benefactours.

€fy9XitM. WSt ^^ ^ [^^^] ^^^ ^7 ^^- Bains7 [the] Int.[erest] of 800^,
iinB to be distributed yearly among poor Housekeepers not
receiving Alms, viz. to Poolton Towns, [hip the] Int.[erest] of
400^; to Thornton, Marton, Stayning, and Carlton, [the] Int.
[est] of lOtf each.

School, was appointed m the year 1814, and, after thirtj-fire jeara* bkbonr, thua
speaks of the condition of the place prerioiis to his appointment: "I found the
population uncouth, rude, brutal, and if I maj use the expression, positiyely obstinate
in barbarity, and its attendant consequences, and entirely destitute of those feelings
which solely characterise a liberal education, — so that it might truly be said that
the Schoolmaster had been abroad.*' He returned, however, to Marton in the per-
son of Mr. Bryer ; and the pious intentions of the Founder of the School have since
been well realized. In 1821 the Endowment of the School, consisting of a house and
twenty-two acres of land, was valued at £69 per annum.

7 This sum of £800 was expended in. Land, consisting of a ferm-house and 86a. 21p.
of the measure of seven and a half yards to the perch, in Little Carlton, and now let
for £100 per annum. The bene£Eu;tor also provided that Poor Children should be
bound Apprentices, as well as the poorest sort of Inhabitants of Poulton relieved.

Mr. James Baines has been described as ^ the representative of a long line of Gen-
tlemen in the Hundred of Lonsdale." The only proofs advanced in confirmation of
this claim, are his liberal and ample charities. He was an ancestor of the Bight
Honourable Matthew Talbot Baines, M.F.

9famt|> of 3lmottnDeintt00* 461

ItSaareW Certif.[ied] by [the] Vicar an. [no] 1705, -jj^ ^ * g^
not above 57^, (4i of w*** to be paid to [the] Curate of m.b.t.
Broughton Chap. [el,] viz. one Acre of Land; Great |^- 5; J; I
Tyths of one Towns? about 12^ p.[er] an.[num;] Small ^^^j^^*"*^*
Tyths and East, [er] dues uncertain ; the rest Surp. [lice] Pees. ^^J^^S.*""*''

V.[ide] Pap. Reg. Fam

By other accounts it appears to be a good 100^ P-[er] an.[num,] d^/'mVp.
part of w^ is precarious ; but the Vicar now allows it to be above
80^ p.[er] an.[num,] in such dues as may be legally demanded,
an. [no] 1717.

Given to ''water dry and barren places in Lancashire,^' or to
''direct the People to the glory of a Preaching Minister at Preston,^'
by Mr. [Henry] Banaster of Hackney, 10^ p. [er] an. [num.] The

1 Dedicated to St. Wilfred, ArchbiBliop of York ; dedicated to St. John, since 1581.
Value in 1884, £666. Begisten begin in 1611.

At the Domesday Surrey, Amoundemess contained but sixteen thinly inhabited
Tillages, and three Churches — Preston, Kirkham, and St. Michael's — and nearly all the
rest of the Hundred was waste. William the Conqueror conferred the lands between
the Sibble and Mersey on Boger of Poictiers, and Amoundemess was afterwards
added to his princely possessions. All these were forfeited to the Crown by his
attainder.

In the reign of Henry II. Theobald Walter held Amoundemess by knight*s sendee,
and on the 22d of April in the Ist Richard I. obtained from the King a grant of the
Fee of the Lordship of Preston in Amoundemess, together with the whole Wapentake
and Forest of Amoundemess, to hold by three knights' fees. He was Sheri£f of the
County fr^m the 6th Richard I. to the 1st John. In the reign of Heniy. m. the
Manor of Preston was in the Crown ; and in the 2dd Edward I. two burgesses were
elected to serre in Parliament fr^m the King's Manor of Preston. In 1363 the
County of Lancaster was erected into a Palatinate, under John of Gkrant, and Preston
was constituted the chief seat of the Duchy and Palatine Courts. The fine Baronud
Castle of the Dukes of Lancaster on the banks of the Lune, alone preyented their
establishing the Capital of the County where it ought to haye been fixed — on the
banks of the Ribble. Preston still remains 4)arcel of the possessions of the Duchy of
Lancaster. Camden says, " out of the ruins of Ribchester arose Preston, a large, and
for these parts, a handsome and populous town."

The Church of Preston was granted by Roger of Poictiers to the Priory of St.
Mary of Lancaster, but it appears to haye been obtained by the Crown before the *

462 fiotitUL et%tKitmiiL

Mayor and Couucill of Preston were Trustees for y« money [£200,
being part of a Legacy of £600,] w®^ hath been laid out in Land
in Brockholes near Preston, and is now applyed to a Curate.

An.[no] 1374, [a Clerk] Inst, [ituted] to [the] Rect.[ory] of
Preston upon [the] Present, [ation] of [the] D.[uke] of Lancaster.
Reff. Charlton, f. 16.

The Church of Preston in Amundemesse belonged to y« Dutchy
of Lancaster till it was Approp.[riated] to y« Collegiate Church of
St. Mary of Leicester; and then a Vicaridge was ordained. MS.
J5A.[or.]

An. [no] 1421, [a] Present, [ation] to [the] Vic.[arage] of Pres-
ton by [the] Dean and Coll.[ege] of St. Maryes [of] Leicester.
Reg.\ister of] Archd.\eacon\ Bowet, f. 11.

Val.[ue] 161. Patr.[on, the] Coll.[ege] of Leicester. MS. L.

An. [no] 1580, John Bold of Northmeals esq. Patron. Inst,
[itutum] B.lpok,'] 2, p. 3.

35 Eliz.[abeth,] Henry Bold, Patr.[on.] lb.

4th Jobn. Henry m. presented to the Liying, Henry, nephew of the Bishop of
Winchester. In 1859 Henry, Duke of Lancaster, was the Patron ; and in 1871 John
of Gaunt presented to the Liyiiig. Whitaker states that the Adrowson was conferred
by Henry, Duke of Lancaster, on his new College of Leicester. Kot long before that
event the Abbot and Gonyent of Whalley cast a longing eye upon this wealthy bene-
fice, and presented a Petition to the Duke of Lancaster for a donation of it ; but
great as their interest then was with the descendant of their Founder, the application
did not succeed. Whitaker had not learnt the date of the Appropriation ; but Dr.
Ducarel records, ** Appropriatio Ecclesiee de Preston Monaster, de Syon : Dat. 17 die
Junii, A.D. 1420." Two Instruments, CharUB MiseeU, in the Auffm. Office, marked s.
10, E. 11. The Dean and Canons of St. Mary's College, Leicester, presented to the
Vicarage until the time of Edward YI. when the Crown obtained the patronage,
which it alienated to the Bold family, from whom it passed to the Hoghtons of
Hoghton Tower. The Advowson was conveyed, by sale, to the Feoffees of William
Hulme of Hulme and Kearsley Esq. by Sir Heniy Philip Hoghton Bart, who died in
1835. In 1660 the Inquisitors returned Preston as a Yioarage in the Patronage of
Sir Bichard Hoghton Bart, the Impropriator of the Tithes, which were valued at
£176. 12s. lOd. *' Mr. Isaac Ambrose, a painfull Min', is Vicar of Preston, and receives
for his Sallary the profitts of his whole Vicarage, w^^, about 80 years since, was worth
ab* 100 markee per ann. but in these distracted troublesome times, the same is not so
much worth $ besides which there is £50 per ann. of an augment" from the Com. of
Plund. Min", and £50 per ann. forth of y' Revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster, to

I9fattet5 of ftmotttiBetm^^. 468

An. [no] 1603, [A] Vicar presented by virtue of a Grant from
S' Rich.[ard] Houghton of Houghton Tower. lb. p. 87.

An. [no] 1680, [the] King presented upon y« Outlawry of S^
Bich.[ard] Houghton. V.[ide] 8uh8.\cription\ B.[ook. Sir Eich-
ard Houghton is afterwards stated to have presented Mr. James
Starkie, on the 2d December 1682. Inst. JB*.]

Patron, S' Hen.[ry] Houghton Bart.

[A] Reader [was] nominated by [the] Mayor and Corporation,
and other Inhab.[itants]. Y.[ide] Nom.[ination,] 1695.

2 Charters [were] granted by K.[ing] John and Hen.[ry] III.
to [the] Burgesses of Preston.^ MS. Hulm. 97, b. 4, 17.

Libert. Oildse^ Mereat. concessse Burgens. de Preston, by K.
[ing] Edw.[ard.] lb. 19.

Mr. Ambrose, as one of the fotire Itinerant Miniflters within the Ooimtj." — Pari. Inq.
Lamb. lAbr. Dr. Whitaker describes the Church as a good ordinary building, suited
to the popnhition and consequence of the place. The present Nave was built in 1770,
the Tower in 1814, the Chancel in 1817, and in 1823 the Choir was renoyated. In
1846 a fine East Window, of stained glass, was presented by Thomas Genmm Esq.
the Mayor. Dr. Whitaker gives a description of the Church previous to these reno-
vations, — and adds some admirable observations on modem Church architecture. —
Hut. of BichMondihiref vol. ii. p. 425.

Richard Whalley founded a Chantry in this Church, and vested Lands in Sir Alex-
ander Hoghton to Tnaintain a Chaplain at the Altar of St. Crux in the said Chantry,
in 1498. This Chantry was commonly called the Hoghton Box.

St. Mary's Chantiy, in Preston Church, existed in 1536, and was returned to the
Commissioners of Chantries in Lancashire in 1648.

In 1846 a Vicarage House was built.

s King John, in the year 1199, confirmed his father's Charter to Preston, and
granted to the Burgesses the whole toll of the Wapentake Hundred of Amounder-
ness, their !Fair of eight days, xMuturage, and liberty of taking wood in the forest
of Fulwood, towards building their town. In 1227, Henry m. confirmed the right
of pasturage on Fulwood Moor, with as much land as they should want, out of
the forest, on which to build their town ; and in the 87th Henry m. 1262, three
hundred and twenty-four acres, encroached from Fulwood, were confirmed to the
burgesses. Their Moffna ChaHa, however, is dated 1566, and is the most valuable
of the fourteen Boyal Charters, or Confirmations of Charters, possessed by the bur*
gesses.

3 The Ghiild Merchant, originally granted by Henry II. was confirmed and first
celebrated in the 2nd Edward III. It is still celebrated every twenty years, and is
one of the most splendid festivals in the kingdom.

464 ^titia et%ttitn$ii»*

fTotDttir. 9. Lea^ Ashton^ Ingol^ and Cottanr^ 1; Broughton^ Barton^ Haigh-

ton^ Elston^ Giimsargh^ Brockholes^ Eibbletou^ and Fishwick.
»alW. Tulketh/ Lea,* Elston,^ [and] Brockholes.^

d^c^oaU. ^^SS er^ is a Free School,^ taught by a Master and Usher, who
^^ are nominated by [the] Mayor and Councill. [The] Sal.
[ary] of [the] Master is SO* p.[er] an.[numj more or lesse, at
[the] discretion of [the] Mayor and Councill, besides a house and

* Tulketh was held by Marmaduke de Tulketh in the jear 1124 ; and aUberwarda by
Laurence Trayen of Kateby. In the d6th Edward m. John de Trayers was seized
of the same, and his descendant, William Trayers, was liying in 1613. The Estate
was in the possession of the Heskeths in 1687 ; at which time the Hall had a Boman
Gatholic Chapel annexed to it. It still remains in the Hesketh fiunily.

^ Lea was held by William, son and heir of Henry de Lea, and his daughter and
heiress, Sibilla, married Sir Richard de Hoghton in the 2d Edward 11. and conyeyed
the Manor to her husband's family. Lea Hall, in the 32d Elizabeth, was the seat of
Thomas Hoghton Esq. who was slain there in the memorable feud with the Baron of
Kewton. After this fifttal a£Einy Mr. Langton retired to Broughton Tower, and was
" there apprehended lying in his bed, sore wounded."

8 Elston, or Ethelstan, jMused from the local &mily about the time of Edward m.
to the Harringtons of Wol&ge, and fr^m them to the Hultons of Eamworth. It was
conyeyed, in marriage, by Jane, daughter and heiress of Christopher Hulton Esq. to
Boger Asshawe of Hall-o*th*-Hill, before the 21st Henry YII. ; and again by Anne^
daughter and heiress of Thomas Asshawe^ to Bir John Badolyffe of Ordsall, (who
died in 1589,) by whose son it was sold to Sir Thomas Walmesley. The principal
owner is now Thomas Walmesley of Ashton House near Preston Esq. Elston Hall
was sold in 1740 to Thomas Foster Buckley of Buckley and Beaumont Hall Esq. for
£1,900; and now belongs to the Goyemors of Bushell's Hospital in Gkx>8nargh.

7 Brockholes was held by Boger de Brochol in the 88th Henry m. and his
descendant, Nicholas de BrochoUs, about the 2d Henry lY. died, leaying two daugh-
ters and coheiresses ; one of whom married Thomas Singleton, and conyeyed to him
the Manor, the capital messuage called *'Brockehall Hall," and a Fisheiy, which were
in the tenure of Bobert Singleton Esq. in 1613. Shortly afterwards the Estate passed
to the Winckleys of Preston ; and Thomas Winckley of Brockholes Esq. haying mar-
ried Sarah, daughter of William Plumbe of Wayertree Esq. and widow of Sir Bobert
Hesketh Bart, (she died in 1792,) left issue an only daughter and heiress, Frances,
who married, on the 4th of June 1807, Sir John SheUey Bart, and conyeyed the
Manor to his fiimily. Oyer the hall door of the house are the arms of Brockholes^ in
alto relieyo.

^ Tanner, writing to Dr. Kennett, in 1705, says, '* I remember to haye met in our
old friend Dr. Hutton's Collections, with Grammar Schools at Bichmond and

Sfotiers of SmottttDeme^fiL 465

fields worth about 6^ p.[er] an.[numj given by Barthol.[oiQew]
Worthington in 1663. The Usher's Sal. [ary] is 131 • 6» . 8^.

[There is] a Charity School for Boyes, endowed w**^ 15^ p. [er] 3BIue Coat
aii.[nmn] for a Master, and 2^ p.[er] an.[num] for buying Books^ *^^
Paper, Ink, and Fire ; w<* endowment w*** a School-house, are y«
gift of Rog.[er] Sudell, [by WiU dated 26th Jan. 1702.] The
Master is Nom.finated] by y« Vicar and one of Mr. Sudell's exe-
cutors. [In 1726 his nephew, the Rev. Christopher Sudell, Rector
of Holy Trinity in Chester, (brother of James Sudell, Woollen
Draper,) made Statutes for the Government of the School.]

There is another Charity School, for Girls, [which is] main-
tained by Contributions. 200^ [was] given to both Schools, by
W^ Shaw, [in 1720;] 100^ by Mr. [Thomas] Loxham, [in 1723;]
101 by Mrs. [Mary] Stanley, [in 1720;] 20 guin.[eas] by Mr.
Dan.[iel] Pultney, [M.P. from 1722 to 1734. His portrait is in
the Court House.]

[Bartholomew Worthington founded an Alms-house near Fish- 9Xlmi'iaviiti,
ergate Barrs, for decrepit people, in 1663; and the Corporation
have some Alms-houses.]

fbtn to y« Poor of Preston by G. [eorge] Rogertson,® [in C^nxiXM.

1619,] 91 p.[er] an.[num,] in Land; by S^Tho.[ma8] Hes-
keth, [in 1605,] and Seth Bushell, [Draper, in 1623,] 20^ each ;
Pet.[er] Burscough [of Walton,] and W™ Martin [of Preston, in
1631,] 401 each; J. Rogertson, Mrs. Sherbum, [in 1625,] and
Ja" Stopforth, lOi each; W. Rogertson, 4i; Silv. [ester] Ingham,
[in 1669,] 21 p.[er] an.[num,] on a house in Preston; Mr. [Tho-

PBEStOH, in the 14th centuzy, which were under the cognisanoe of the Archdeacon
of Richmond, (who yon know had Episcopal power,) and yet had no relation to any
religious houses." — Sir H. Ellis' Letters ofEmin. Lit. Men, (edited for the Caxdvs
SociSTT,) p. 829. 1848. Nothing is known of the origin of the School, except that
from a yezy early period it had heen repaired and supported by the Corporation. A
stipend of £2. 18s. 2d. was charged upon the lands of the Buchy of Lancaster, for a
Clerk and Schoolmaster at Preston, in the time of Edward YI. The Corporation
has lately rebuilt the School in a Collegiate form.
" George Bogerson of Preston Omi, settled £9 a year on the Poor of Preston, and
VOL. II.] 8 o

466 j^otitfa Cf0lrtm0to.

mas] Crook, [in 1688J 3*p.[er] aii.[num;] Th.[omas] Houghton,
[in 1649,] 21-14' p.[er] an.[num,] on lands; Dor.[othy] Cosney,
[in 1678,] IW, [the] (Int.[erest of which] to be disposed of by
Trustees;) J.[ohn] Daveson, [Dawson, in 1698J lOCV; Rob.[ert]
Whittington, [gham, in 1690,] 681; Mr. Tho» Hodgkinson [of
Preston Gent, in 1697,] 501; Mr. Tho» Winkley [of Preston
Gent, in 1710,] 50^; Mr. W^ SudeU, 8^ p.[er] an.[num;] Mr. Ja»
Sudell [of Preston, Woollen Draper, in 1698, for Bibles and Tes-
taments,] 11 p.[er] an.[num, and 80s. to the Poor; the] Int.
[erest] of lOi, for Bread on Sacr.[ament] dayes, [by Mrs. Smithy
in 1710; ^6200 by Henry Banister of Hackney Gent, in 1628, for
putting out Apprentices ; Richard Hoghton, in 1613, gave £15 a
year to the Poor; James Ashton, in 1709, £100; John Faringtou
of Elston, in 1670, 40s a year.]

flugm* |^[ 3i?ft9«[Si^t]i in [the] town; erected

ai^B|an.[no] 1724. Augment, [ed] an. [no]
1724 w^ 2001 by [the] Contrib.[utions] of Mr. Peplo, and
others.

£4 a year on poor prisoBen in Lancaster Castle, by Deed dated the 25th of January
1619, and appointed Roger Langton of Broughton Tower Esq. one of his Trustees.
Mr. Langton afterwards married Margaret, widow of Mr. G^rge Bogerson, and died
in 1644 aged eighty-fiye. His son, William Langton, was M.P. for Preston during
part of the Long Parliament. He is, howeyer, omitted in the list of Lancashire
Members giyen in yoL ii. p. 1, of the Chetham Society's publications. Carlyle
attributes to him the letter signed W. L. at p. 256 of that work.

> Dedicated to St. George. Value in 1834, £161. Registers at the Parish Church.

This pUun cruciform edifice, built of brick, but cased with stone in 1S45, is a Cha-
pel of Ease to the Mother Church ; and haying be^ built during the Incumbenoj,
and through the laudable exertions of Mr. Samuel Peploe, the redoubtable opponent
of Bishop Gkstrell, and the fearless adyocate of the Hanoyerian succession, it was
dedicated — not to King G^rge, his Patron — but to the Patron Saint of England.
It was not consecrated until 1726, when the Founder had the singular and unex-
pected priyilege of completing his own work.

The Yicar of Preston appoints the. Curate.

Seanets of SmounDmie^^* 467

memejI^SrdN/ Certif.[ied] 341 p. ottap-i^ar.

[er] an.[num,] viz. 20i.08».0(>i from
au Estate of Mr. Langton's^ near y« Chap, [el,] 10^ of w^ [was]
given long agoe by S' Edw. [ard] Wirkington,^ [and] the remainder
by Koger Langton of Chester, about an. [no] 1712; [the] Int.
[erest] of 100^ given by Rich, [ard] Crosse, 5^; Besides 4^ p.[er]
an.[num] p<* by [the] Vie.[ar] of Preston.

■Dedicated to . Value in 1834» £106. Begisten begin in 1653.

Dr. Whitaker supposes that Broughton being near the Boman Bead from Man-
chester to Lancaster, bj Blackrode, received its name from a small Boman fort.
The Manor was held in the 19th Edward II. by Gilbert de Singleton, who also pos-
sessed a messuage, lands, and two mills, in Bronghton. This is supposed to be the
foundation of the property of the Singletons of Broughton Tower, which conti-
nued in the family until about the ISth James, when it passed to Boger Langton
of Preston, and was sold by Mr. Bawstome of Peuwortham about the year 1810.
Part of the Estate was bought by the Trustees of Kirkham School; and another part
by James Bothweil of Hoole Esq. by whose heirs it is now held.

The Church existed here in the 18th Henry YIII. as Laurence Stadaghe derised
his lands for the repairs of Broughton Church and the Church Bridges, if a School
was not founded. The dates 1637 and 1539 were formerly carved on the oak roof of
the ChanoeL There were two Chapels in the Church : that on the North side of the
Chancel was built by Thomas Barton of Barton Esq. who married 3Iatilda, daughter
of G^eoffirey Bedmayne of Thornton in Lonsdale, in the sixteenth century ; that on
the South, by the Singletons of Broughton Tower. The Nave of the Church was
rebuilt in 1822. The old and handsome Tower bearing the date 1533, was preserved.
The aims of Singleton, Langton, Barton, and Bedmayne, which, with their initials,
decorated the old Church, are preserved in the exterior of the Eastern gable ; and
engravings of them may be seen in Whitaker's History of BickmondsMrey voL ii. p.
48^-4. In 1660 the Parochial Chapel of Broughton was returned as being four miles
from the Parish Church ; and the Inhabitants of Broughton and Haighton being
three hundred families, at the least, desired to be united and made a separate and
distinct Parish. Mr. James Knott, the Minister, received £40 per annum from the
Committee of Plundered Ministers. — Pari Inq. Lamb. lAhr,

In November 1698, William Woods, Curate of the Chapel of Broughton, Clerk,
entered his suit against Thomas Birch M.A. Yicar of Preston, for the recovery of £4
per annum, paid frt>m time immemorial, by the Vicars, to the Beaders or Curates of
this ChapeL The Vicar, in his answer, did not deny the claim, but objected that
Woods had been deprived twenty years previously, for a Clandestine marriage, and
that he refused to pay the stipend '*for Beasons sufficient to bee given by this
Bespondent in the Event of this Suite proceeding." The reasons are stated in the

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Sfanrrs of ^InumtilienteM. 469

Given to y« Poor, [the] Int[ere8t] of 41^, taken care of by C^arttM.
Trustees ; one 4*^* part of 22 acres of Land given by Mr. [Thomas]
Houghton, [in 1649J nnder y« care of Trustees; 1^ p.[er] an.
[num] by Widow Daniel, for w*** there are Trustees; [the] Int.
[erest] of 21^, given long agoe by [a] person unknown.

2r* 1.98eillSN<rS.i TUs ChappeU Augm*
was built, and has been constantly
Bepaired by y« Family who enjoyed y« Estate, and lived in the
Manonr-house, to w^ this seems to have been a Domestick Chap-
peU; w^ House and Estate now belong to Mr. Shuttleworth.

Certif.[ied] that nothing certain belongs to it.

Augmented with 30^ p.[er] an. [num] out of Lands in Barton
Mauour by Mr. Shuttleworth, he taking 200^ from [the] Gov* of
[the] Cl.[ueen]'s Bounty, and having y« Bight of Nomination
confirmed to him an. [no] 1723. But it being found afterwards
y^ y^ Lands proposed, were soe settled as not to be alienated,
Mr. Shuttleworth gave 200^ in money, and built a House for j^
Curate.

' Dedicated to St. Laiurenoe. Yalue in 1834, no return. Registers at the Motlier
Church.

Barton was held by Ghimbald de Barton in the 32d Henry m. and oontinned in
hiB descendants until Fleetwood, sole daughter and heiress of Bichard Barton of
Barton Esq. about the year 1612, transferred the Estate, by maniage^ to Bichard
Shuttleworth of Gkiwthorp Esq. M.P. The Manor was sold in 188S, by James Shut-
tleworth Esq. elder brother of Robert Shuttleworth Esq. of Gawthorp, to the late
Mr. Gheorge Jacson of Preston, whose son resides at Barton liodge^ and is Patron of
the IdTing. The Hall is now a farm-house.

The Chapel was in existence before the Reformation, -and occurs in 1677. In 1660
St. Laurence's Chapel within Barton, was said to be seren miles from Preston, with
neither Minister nor maintenance. The Township was yeiy large, and comprised a
great nxmiber of families. It was thought desirable that it should be made a Paro-
chial Chi^iel, and rendered dependent on Broughton. — Pari. Inq. Lamb, Libr. The
Chapel was enlarged in 1846 by George Jacson Esq. and contains a fine stained
window ornamented with the armorial bearings of the ancient and modem owners of
the Estate. It is now likely to be made ParochiaL

468 ^tttia

[Mr.] Birch^ [the] Vicar of Preston^ having refused to pay y«
4^ p.[er] an. [nam] due for y« Curate^ for 8ev.[eral] years, the
Inhab.[itant8] entred into a Subscript, [ion] for y^ recovery of it.
It was Given for Birch, bec.[ause] he was a Curate removable at
pleasure, and he might have a Quantum meruit. Salkeld's Re-
ports.

CofDtur.4. 3 m.[ile8] from [the] Par.[ish] Church. [The] Villages of
Broughton, Barton, Hayton, [Haighton,] and Dorton, belong
to it.

ttnXL Broughton.'

t^ooh ^W ^$$ Gram, [mar] School ; [the] Sal. [ary] to [the] Master
^^M [is] at pres.[ent] 13^ •07'* 06^, arising from certain mes-
suages and Land, containing 34 acres, given by Mr. Lawr.[ence]
Stadaugh [in the] 18th H.[enry] 8, "towards the exhibition and
finding of an honest person, sad and discreet, to teach Grammar
School at Broughton;'' and 1^ p.[er] an.[num,] given by W™
Daniell, Yeoman, [by Indenture dated 3d November 1656,] and
secured on Lands.

[The] Master is nominated by [the] FeofiPees. V.[ide] Nom-
[ination] an. [no] 1705, Pap. Reg.

[The] Writings [are] kept in y« Church Chest.

text. — Bishop of Ohester^s Act Book, 1698. Anne, daughter of Mr. Birch, the Vicar
of Preston, was the first wife of Dr. Peploe, Warden of Manchester, Chancellor of
Chester, and Archdeacon of Richmond.

Patrons — the Feofibes of William Hulme Esq. There b a Parsonage-honBe.

^ The indiridual was Sir Edward Wrightington, as William Langton Esq. in his
Will dated 1659, mentions haying sold lands in Bronghton to him, some of which
were settled ** to secure a preaching Minister at Broughton Church."

B Broughton Tower, a strong heayj structure of stone^ surrounded hy a moat, and
taken down at the beginning of the present century, was possessed bj Boger Langton
Esq. in the time of James I. ; and on the death of his great-grandson, Boger Langton
Esq. in 1714, it passed to William Langton Esq. his cousin, who also dying s.p. after
1782, it was devised by him to his sister Jane, who afterwards, and at an adyanoed
age, became the wife of Laurence Bawstome Esq. A Pedigree of Langton of Brough-
ton and Kirkham, now represented by Joseph Langton of Liyerpool Esq. is giyen in
Baines' Butgry of LoMcatHwn, yol. iy. p. 409, and in Burke*s ZofMM (Tsutfy, 8yo.
1847.

9f anrrs of 9lmowatvm$^f^ 469

Given to y« Poor, [the] Int[erest] of 41^, taken care of by C^nxitM*
Trustees ; one 4^ part of 22 acres of Land given by Mr. [Thomas]
Houghton, [in 1649,] under y« care of Trustees; 1^ P-[er] an.
[num] by Widow Daniel, for w^ there are Trustees; [the] Int.
[erest] of 21^, given long agoe by [a] person unknown.

2r* i.9[8ililSNftS.^ This Chappell Aupi*
was built, and has been constantly
Repaired by y« Family who enjoyed y« Estate, and lived in the
Manonr-house, to w^ this seems to have been a Domestick Chap-
pell; w^ House and Estate now belong to Mr. Shuttleworth.

Certif.[ied] that nothing certain belongs to it.

Augmented with 80^ P^C^f] an. [num] out of Lands in Barton
Mauour by Mr. Shuttleworth, he taking 200^ from [the] Gov* of
[the] Q.[ueen]^s Bounty, and having y« Bight of Nomination
confirmed to him an. [no] 1728. But it being found afterwards
y^ y^ Lands proposed, were soe settled as not to be alienated,
Mr. Shuttleworth gave 200^ in money, and built a House for j^
Curate.

' Dedicatod to St. Lanrenoe. Value in 1884, no return. B^giaters at the Motlier
Ghurch.

Barton was held by Grimbald de Barton in the 82d Henry HL and continued in
his descendants until Fleetwood, sole daughter and heiress of Bichard Barton of
Barton Esq. about the year 1612, transferred the Estate, by marriage^ to Bichard
Shuttleworth of Gkiwthorp Esq. M.P. The Manor was sold in 1888, by James Shut-
tleworth Esq. elder brother of Bobert Shuttleworth Esq. of Gkiwthorp, to the late
Mr. G^rge Jacson of Preston, whose son resides at Barton Lodges and is Patron of
the Liying. The Hall is now a farm-house.

The Chapel was in existence before the Beformation,4Uid oocurs in 1677. In 1660
St. Laurence's Chapel within Barton, was said to be seven miles from Preston, with
nmther Minister nor maintenance. The Township was yery large, and comprised a
great number of fimiilies. It was thought desirable that it should be made a Paro-
chial Chapel, and rendered dependent on Broughton. — P€url, Inq. Lamb, Libr. The
Chapel was enlarged in 1846 by George Jacson Esq. and contains a fine stained
window ornamented with the armorial bearings of the ancient and modem owners of
the Estate. It is now likely to be made ParochiaL

470 ^tftia et%tntn%i».

Sugm. ^^ San €199lWSlJL,i lately erected,

^M viz. an. [no] 1716, in y« Township of
Grirosargh, [but] not yet Consecrated, an. [no] 1722.
Certif. [led] that nothing at all belongs to it.
2001 [^as] Subscribed by Mr. Peplo, Min' of Preston, S' H.
Houghton, and others, tow.[ards] y« Augment, [ation,] an. [no]

> Dedicated to St. MiohaeL Value in 1884, £77. Begisten at the Mother Choroh.

The Manor of Grimsargh, long rested in the Hoghton family, was sold by Sir
Henry P. Hoghton Bart, to the late William Cross of Bed Scar Esq.

The Chapel is still a small rustic fE^bric, although enlarged in 1815 ; and again
restored, and some handsome stained glass windows presented by John Cross Esq. in
1844. The Yicar of Preston appoints the Incumbent; and there is a Parsonage-
house.

The following letter from Mr. Peploe to Bishop Gastrell will explain the circum-
stances which led to the building of the Church: —

"My Lord, I beg leaTC to acquaint y' L'p y* there are three Townships and part of
another in this Parish w^i* lie three, four, and fiye miles from the Church, and haye
no other conyenient Plaoe of publick worship. That by this unhappy Situation they
haye stiU been exposed to temptations and Popeiy, (w^i* is too preyalent in these Parts
of your Lordship's Diocess,) and are thereby an easier Prey to the Priests of that
Communion ; we haying no less than six of these men in y* one Parish. From my
first coming to this plaoe I haye wished for some hopeful remedy ag* y* growing eyil ;
and I hope we are now in a way for it if y' Lp. please to giye your approbation.

" Sir Henry Hoghton, the Patron of y" Church, (and who has done seyeral good
things for increasing o' Congregation, and is the person who do's me the fayor to put
y* paper into y' hand,) has promised Land to biiild a Chapel where it wiU be seryice-
able to the Inhab** aboye ment' ; and w*^ his assistance, I doubt not to procure a
decent place for y* worship of Gt>d among *em.

" When the intended Chappel is opened, I haye taken care already y' there shall be
ten pounds per ann. at least, annexed to it, besides what some of the Inhabitants will
Subscribe, and w* may be got by Teaching School, it being a place where a diligent
man may help himself that way. These, together, will be a competency for a Curate
in y* cheap Country ; and I hope if y* work be perfected, it will be of great use to
men's Souls, as well as of seryice to our Church. I wait only for y' L'lp's pleasure
to p'ceed. If I haye y* encouragement I shall immediately set about it<, and hope to
giye you a good account of y* affairs in a Uttle time. I am y* L^^^ miknown, but
yeiy dutifuU son and obedient Sery*, Signed — Saux. Pbplob.

'* I was at Chester to pay my Duty to y' L^'p, soon after you went for London.

" Preston in Lancashire, Deanery of Richmond. (P)

Apr. 4, 1715." Gastrell's M8S. SeffMy, Chuter,

Stmtxa of 9lmi>mioenif00« 471

1717 ; 40^ of w«^ [was given] by a Gentlewoman who desired not
to be known.

tt«»iBS2rSll,» Certif.[ied] SSL 19-. 1^, viz. by [the] Vi.,„ii.&.%

Bp. of Chester, 13i.6«.8d; (Reserved by Indent. [ure,] ip^ ^^

V. [ide] Reg, \i8ter.'\ ) Tyth of Hay and Com in Dutton^ T.^Rect. pd. by

let for 131. 0». 5^; Small Tyths and East.[er] dues, syn... 0. 2.

&i«12»; Sup. [lice] Fees, 31. tobeJii.byF«r-

mer, but Diach.

Besides 13*'6*-8<^ [paid] to y* Vicar, there is reserved by In- *!J^p.jM.

dent.[ure] 5i.6*.8^ for a Priest serving w*^in the Church of Bib- fmi

Chester. ffii8."M.p.

An. [no] 1684, Mr. Hayhurst, Min.[ister] of Macclesfield, left
all his Books (except [the] Book of Martyrs and [his] Great

1 Dedicated to St. Wilfred. Value, with Stidd, in 1884, £128. Registers begin
in 1598.

Bibchester — the Bibeloastre of Dome9day — though now an inconsiderable Tillage,
is one of the most ancient of our English cities, and traces its antiquity to the Boman
Invasion of Britain, being unquestionably a Boman fortress. It is the SigodwMtm of
Camden, the Cocciwm of Horsley and Whitaker, and the Eeri^onuMm of Bichard of
Cirencester. Leland says, "it hath bene an Auncient Towne. Great Squared stones,
Youltes, and Antique ooynes, be founde ther ; and ther is a plaoe wher that the Peple
&ble that the Jue9 had a Temple !*' No doubt the Temple stood there ; but it was
Boman, and not Jewish. A fiill account of the rare and interesting relics, temples,
coins, altars, statues, and bronzes, which haye been so plentifully discoyered here, will
be found in all the County and other Historians, and proyes that this place, at 'one
time, was one of the richest and most important towns in Christendom.

The Manor was held by Edmund de Lacy in the 42d Henry HE. j and in the 27th
Edward m. the Motons styled themselyes Lords of Bibchester. From this fiimiily
the Manor passed to the Hoghtons of Hoghton Tower, who were the owne^ in the
7th Henry lY. and Sir Alexander Hoghton was found to have died seized of it in the
14th Henry YII. It was in the possession of Sir Bichard Sherburne* of Stonyhurst
before the 36th Elizabeth, and was deyised by his representatiye, Maiy, Duchess of
Korfblk, who died B.p. on the 24th of September 1754^ to Thomas Weld of Lulworth
Castle Esq. ; and was sold, along with the Manors of Dutton and Bayley, in 1829,
by Cardinal Weld, to Joseph Fenton of Bamford Hall Esq. and on his death in 1840,
became yested in his sons, John Fenton of Crimble, and James Fenton of Bamford
HallEsqrs.

472 JlrOtitia et%ttcitn$iin.

Bible,) to y« Par.psh] Church of Eibchester. V.[ide] WiU,
Pap, Reg.

Improp.[riator] and Patron, (by Indent, [nre,)] the B.pshop] of
Chester.

An. [no] 1542, a person [George Wolfatt L.L.D.] was Institu-
ted to y« Rectory by [the] B. [ishop] of Chester, upon [the] pre-
sent, [ation] of K.[ing] H.[enry] 8.

Val.[ue] 801. Pat.[ron,] the Crown. MS. L.

An. [no] 2 Edw.[ard] 6, [the] Rectory [was] let by y« then
Parson, Bp., and Dean and Chap.[ter,] for 90 years. V.[ide]
Bp^s Lease, and Reg.{%ster of the] D.\ean\ and Chap.lter,]

An. [no] 1573, John Whitakers presented [a Clerk] to y« Vicar-
idge, [probably as Lessee of the Bishop.] lb. Pap. B, [pok,'] p. 6.

The Parish contains 3568 large acres. The town was formerly
called Ribblechester, from y« River Ribble, and was in Blackbum-
8h.[ire.] V.[ide] Whalley.

A Church existed here at a yeiy early period, although there is no record of one in
Domesday, at which time Bibcheater was a portion of the ancient Saxon Parish of
Whalley. A Church was built before the time of Henry II. and was yalued in 1291,
at £22. The Dutton Choir on the South side of the Church, with its mutilated en-
riched screen, is supposed to be of the age of King John or Heniy III. A moiety of
it formerly belonged to the Hoghtons, in right of possessions in Alston which were
sold by the late Sir Henry F. Hoghton to Mr. Bothwell. The other moiety belonged
to the Townleys ; and on the 14th of May 1729, Biohard Townley of BelAdd Esq.
sold to John Biley, the middle part of Dutton Choir, being a seat therein, fire feet
square, reserring power to pass and repass to other parts of the said Choir, not
thereby granted. — Lohc. M88. vol. xxxi p. 514. In 1740 Bichard Townley of Beiileld
Esq. leased an Estate in Bailey, together "with the further end of Dutton Choir
within Bibchester Church." — Lane, M88, yoL xxxi. p. 519. This portion of the
Chapd is now claimed by Mrs. Alston of Bibchester, in right of William Fye G^t.
deceased, a descendant of the Townleys of Dutton. A Chantry on the Korth side of
the Choir, was founded by Sir Bichard Hoghton M.P. in the 7th Henry lY. ; and his
daughter Catherine (said by Whitaker, to be the wife of William UnchaUs, but cer-
tainly the wife of Hugh Yenables, Baron of Kinderton,) rested certain lands, in Trust,
for a Chaplain to celebrate Diyine Service erery day in this Chapel, erected for the
salration of the souls of King Henry, of Sir Bichard Hoghton, Knight, her Father,
Mother, and others. The Chantry is named in the year 1648. In this Choir is a
Tomb, of one soUd block of stone, bearing three heraldic coats of the Hoghtons.
This Chapel now belongs to the Messrs. Fenton.

fifotiers nt 1lmmiM0tvm%$^ 478

Towns, [ips] or Hamlets^ 5, viz. Bibchester^ Dflworth, Alston CofDinf. 5.
and HothersaU^ Bayley,^ and Button; for w«^ there are 5 Church-
wardens^ 4 of them chosen by y^ 24 men of their respective
Quarters^ and one by [the] Min.[ister] for Bibchester^ out of
three Nominated to him.

[The] Clark [is] chosen by [the] Heir of Houghton Tower.

Oim to y^ Poor of [the] whole Parish [by] Rob. [ert] Jen- C^sritM.
Idnson^ Merch* [Tailor] of London^ 50^, [the] Int. [erest to

The AdrowBon appears to haye been, from a remote period, vested in the Dukes of
Lanoaster ; and was conferred upon the See of Chester, at its foundation, by Henry
VUL The Bishop of Chester is the Bector of the' Parish, and has all the great
Tithes, except in Dutton.~Baines' Eitt, qf Zcutcashirey p. 888. The text would lead
to an opposite conclusion.

In the year 1650 Bibcheeter was found to be a Vicarage appropriated to the late
Bishop of Chester. The Tithes were let to the Inhabitants for a term of lives, (one
yet in being,) by the Trustees for the Sale of Bishops' Lands, for £89. 15s. 6d. a
year. There were four Townships, and some of them were five miles from the
Gfanreh. There was formerly paid -to the Vicar, by the Bishop of Chester, twenty
marks per annum, and also £6. 13s. 4d. a year, out of the Parish of Stede ; but
no ailowaace had lately been made. The Minister was Mr. Christopher Hindley
(instituted in 1617,) lately suspended by Order fr*om the Provincial Assembly of
Divines for this County ; but for what cause the presenters knew not. — Pari,
Inq, Lamb, lAbr, A very full account, however, of the causes which led to this
iniquitous act, may be found in Walker's S^fferingt of the Clergy^ p. 268, where
he is called Hindle ; and "Cowel" is probably meant for Colne, where he died in 1657 :
see also Whitaker's Eutory of Biehmondshire^ vol. ii. p. 464. In 1647 the Commis-
sioners for the Sale of Bishops' Lands, stated that the Vicar had power to Pish in the
Bibble, so fiff as the Glebe land extended ; " but there is not any benefit made of it.
They are at present without any Minister here, and only heare so often as they can,
and pay the Mmia*^ chiefly out of their own purses. There was one Mr. Harley,
[Hindley,] Mnuster, but was put out by the Committee of Divines in Lancashire, for
his insufficiency, and being §ea»dalory in his li£9 and conversation." The Bectory
was then held by Richard Sherbum of Stonyhurst Esq. Lord of the Manor, by
Lease from Richard, Bishop of Chester, dated 1608. One li& only in being, via. John
Sherbum, aged seventy-three. — Lamb. M8S, vol. iii. c.

The Church has been erected at various periods, and consists of a Chancel, Nave,
Aisles, Chapels, and a castellated squat Tower.

' Dr. Whitaker observes that **Bayley has nothing remarkable" in it, (p. 462;) and
he does not allude to the ruins of a veiy interesting Chapel which existed in his time,
but which were entirely demolished in 1880 by the late Mr. Fenton of Bamford Hall.
VOL. II.] 8 P

474 ^tttto etsUtiiMit^

be paid] yearly. To [the] Poor of Ribchester towns, [hip] by W.
Norcross^ 20^, [the] Int.[ere8t to be applied] yearly towards put-
ting out Apprentices. To Ribchester cum Dilworth^ 20^, by Ha.
[gh] Sherboum^ to [the] same use. To Dilworth^ 10^^ by Grace
Ward. [These two last appear to be lost Legacies. Mrs. Frances
Roades gave a house and land to the Poor of Dilworih^ in 1696.]

An. [no] 22 Jac. 1^ [an] Inquis.[ition was held] about misem-
ployed money given to [the] Poor of this place, [MS. Hulm,'] 98.
A. 16, 87, w*^ [an] Order upon it.

!»"• M. Q. fl^ eWeilSlBAS,^ a Chapel of Ancient

''""•'^' Wf Foundation. Certif.[ied] 41.13'. 4*,

viz. 18" •4<^ Rent Charge upon Land, and 4^ Int. [crest] of money.

This was a Chantry foxinded by Bobert de diderhow, Bector of Wigan, for thirty
years a Clerk in Chancery, and the King's Escheator beyond Trent. He was a parti-
san of Thomas, Earl of tiftncaster, (executed in the 15th Edward 11. 1S21-2,) and
was charged with haTing preached in Wigan Church against the King, ntMnfAiiiiii|r
that his Parishioners were the liege subjects of the Earl ; and also with haying fur-
nished two horse soldiers, his son, Adam de Cliderhow, being one, and also four foot
soldiers, armed with swords, bills, bows and arrows, in the Earl's behalf. In the 17th
Edward II. 1823, the Bector was publicly accused, tried, and acquitted of treason. —
Dodsworth's M8S, toL Izxvi. p. 95, from a copy in Mr. Langton's poasession.
Edward m. granted a Licence dated at the Tower of London, the 16th of March in
ihe 12th year of his reign, to Henry de Cliderow, to alienate lands in Mortmain, tib.
two messuages in Bibchester and Button, forty acres of land, forty acres of meadowi
two acres of wood, and yi* rent, for a perpetual Chaplain to say Mass daily in the
Chapel of St. John the Baptist in Bayley, built by Bobert de Cliderow, late Bector of
Wigan, for the souls of the said Bobert, of Heniy de Cliderow, and of all their ances-
tors, and for the souls of all the &ithfuL And in the same year, by Deed dated
Bayley, the Sunday after St. Martin's day, the said Henry de Cliderow granted the
same messuages and lands to WilUam de Preston, Chaplain of the said Chantiy. —
XoNc. M88. Tol. zxTii p. 19 ; toL ix. p. 278. See also Not. Outr, toL ii. pt. ii. p. 248.

> Dedicated to St. Laurence, Archdeacon and M. Value in 1834^ £107. B^gisters
begin in 1760. No Marriages.

Alston and Hothersall form a joint Township, to the West of Biboheater; and
Longridge is a large yillage, partly in Alston, and partly in Dilworth, near the sum-
mit of the EelL

•ramrs of AmottnBnmiifls* 475

2i m.[ile8] from [the] Par.[ish] Church. Served once a fort-
night by 7^ VicaTj who had an order from B.[i8hop] Pearson to
receiye y« Revenues belong, [ing] to this Chap, [el.] V.[ide]
Vic" Letter, an.[nd] 1704. Pap. Beg.

An. [no] 1702, it was directed by [the] Bp. y* y« Chappelry
ought to repair y^ Chap.[el,] and not y^ whole Parish; but it is
recommended to y^ Par.[ish] to do it out of courtesy. V.[ide]
Pap. Reg. [Rebuilt in 1716.]

The Rent Charge was given an. [no] 1657, by W. Multon of
Whittingham, to a preaching Min.[ister] here.

Given an. [no] 1678, to a preaching Min.[ister] here, [the] Int.
[erest] of 80^, by Joh[n] Eccles.

An. [no] 1701, [the] Int. [erest] of 40^, by Bi. [chard] Parkin-
son ; since by Isab. [ella] Chamley, [the] Int. [erest] of 10^ ; all of
this Parish. Certif.[ied] 1722.

[HothersaU Hall.^] f^aU.

The Ohapel is said to be ''plain and neat," and built abont one hundred and fifty
yean ago^ rebuilt in 1784^ [1788 J and again in 182^-8, by subscription. — Baines's
^H. i3f LamoaMre^ toL iii p. 887. The original foundation was, howerer, anterior
to the Beformation ; and the Cbapel occurs in Saxton's ICap, in 1577. It had nei-
ther Minister nor maintenance in 1660, although the district contained one hundred
and forty fiunilies, who, deploring their spiritual destitution, humbly desired the
Legislature to afford them a competent Endowment, to appoint a Minister, and to
oonstitote their district a distinct Parish. It is to be regretted that so discreet and
rcaeonahlft a petition was not conceded. — TarL Jnq. Lamb. lAhr.

The Adrowson has been purchased of Sir Henxy P. Hoghton Bart, by the Feo-
fEbee of William Hulme Esq. \ so that after the lapse of two centuries, the sober
prayer of the Commonwealth Parishioners will probably be granted — not exactly by
the liberality of the State^ which the old Puritans judiciously recommended — but \i^
prirate Christian philanthropy. In 1841 a square Tower was built. A Parsonage-
house has been erected, and the Liying further augmented.

' HothersaU HaQ was the residence of the Manerial owners of the same name at an
early period, and was oocnpiod by them in 1617. Their successors were the Let-
tenbys ; and the present owner is Mr. Martin.

F^un 16

476 Itotftfa €mMnmin.

®iA9*VAt. I^H 9Ci99f^ sdtiiate w^>^ Datton, and

HooMs ... 13 vSak sapposed to be a Parish Cliiirdij and

fomierly a Donatiye.
Certif.[ied] 8i.l».l^ viz. from Stidd Hall, 2^; from 3 other

Estates, 5»; Compos, [ition] for Tyth Hay, 1"; Tyth Com, 1^10»;

Compos, [ition] w^ Hmitington Hall for Great Tyths, 8*; for

Tjrth Hay, 1^.

> Dedicated to St. Sayiour, Le. to the Holy Trinity. Value, with Bibchester, in
1884, £128. BegiBten at Bibohester.

The Manor of Button was in the hnnij of the local name soon after the Conquest;
and in the time of John of Gannt, William de Button granted lands here to "^^lliam
de Moton. The Claytons succeeded this £unily, and in the 47th Edward lU. Heniy
de Clayton regranted the Manors of Button and Townley to Kichard de Tounley,
which he had held as a £BofFee. In an Inquisition taken in the 10th Henry IT. con-
cerning the probation of the age of Bichard de Towneley, his fiither, Bicfaard, depoeed
that his son was bom at Stede in Button, on Tuesday next before the Ascension of
our Lord, in the 10th Bichard 11. and was baptised in Bibchester Church, and that
Bichard de Cliderow was his God&ther, (Compater,) and Cecilia de Cliderow, his
Godmother, (Commater.) — Zome. MSS. toL xiT. p. 9S. A branch of the Parent
House of Townley settled here in the fifteenth century, (probaUy Henry, fourth son
of John Townley of Townley Esq. and of his second wife^ Isabel, daughter of Bichard
Sherburne of Stonyhurst, although the Lancashire Pedigrees begin with Bichard
Townley of Button, younger brother of John Townley of Townley living in the 88rd
Henry YI.) and held the Manor until the death of Henry Townley Esq. in 1776, whose
daughter and heiress, Jennet, married Mr. Ward, and died in extreme old age, in
1799, leaying a son, Townley Ward Esq. who was living in 1808. The Manor was
oonreyed by Cbrdinal Weld to Joseph Fenton of Bamford Hall Esq. and now belongs
to his sons.

Within Button is the ancient *'Hospitale subtus Langrig," with its Chapel of
Sted, dedicated to St. Sayiour. This Hospital was founded in the time of King
John, and was a preoeptory of the Knights* Hospitallers, dependent iq>on the House
of Newland near Wakefield, after the Order of St. John of Jerusalem waa diasolTed.
By Beed s.d. Alan jie Singleton, son of Bichard, grants to the Hospital four acres of
land ; and William, son of Walter de Moton, in the reign of Henry m. confirmed
the lands given by his £&ther. In the year 1601 Nicholas Talbot of the Bashall
family, appointed by his Will, a Priest, to sing for twelye months ''at Stedd, where
Fader and Moder are buried." On the Bissolution of the Bdigious Houses, Heniy
YIII. by Beed dated the 1st of August 1544, conveyed the Manor of Stede, with all
its members and appurtenances, to Thomas, afterwards Sir Thomas Holte^ of Gris-
xlehurst. Knight, together with other Manors and Lands, formerly belonging to the

9$9mts of ftmotntDernettii. 477

An. [no] 1616, a Clerk was Instituted and Inducted to y« Rec-
tory of Stidd upon the Donation or Presentation of Francis
[Holte] Esq. In8t[itfawn] B.[pok,'] 2, p. 65.

An. [no] 1690, [the] Vicar of Bibchester Instituted to Stidd
and invested w^ all the Bights belonging to it. V . [ide] Vicar^s
Letter, an.\no] 1704. Pap, Beg,

Enighto of 8t. John of JeFosalan, and to (he Abbeyi of Oockenand and Whallej, in
oonaideratum of £1,727. 15b. (he poBaesBions of St. John of JeruBalam being held in
ehief hj (he ttunial reQ( of £9. lla. and an annual stipend of 40s. for a Curate of
Stedeu The raouuns of a laige edifioe have been disooyered near (he Ohapel —
donbtiesa (he foundations of the Hospital.

The Ghi^wl, one of (he most entire anoient bnildings in the oonnty, is small, of grey
stcme^ with a South door of beautiful Anglo-Norman aiohiteoture, having slender
elu8(ered columns with flowered capi(al8. Two of (he small lanoe( windows s(ill
remain. On (he Nor(h of (he Al(ar was an ancien( s(one coiBn (omb, inscribed wi(h
the double cross of the Templars, and formerly containing the body of one of the
Masters of the HospitaL Dr. Whitaker, in his Sutory of Biekmondtkure^ giyes an
engraying of the monumental stone of Sir Adam de Oliderhow and his wife, who were
Lord and Lady of Salesbuiy in the reign of Edward UL; and two other slabe, oarer?
ing the remains of anoient Eoolesiastics, still remaiu in the ChapeL The Font is old,
octagonal, and of grit stone. It has the arms of the Templars, and others, rudely
sculptured upon it. In 1650 Stede was returned as a Parish Church, being a Bo-
natiye from (he Abbot of Cokersand, but then belonging to Mr. Holte of Gnule-
hurst, the Lord of the Manor, worth £6. 18s. 4d. a year, and thitherto paid to the
Minister of Bibchester, he being accounted also Parson of Stede. There were at (ha(
(ime only seyenteen fSunilies within the Parish of Stede, which was three quarters of
a mile from Bibchester ; and the Ohapel stood between Button and Bibchester. —r
Pari, Inq. Lamb, lAbr, Prom a series of Suits in Chancery, brought by John Holte
of Shrewsbury Qeni. between (he years 1694 and 1721, against the seyeral purchasers
of Bstates, late the inheritance of Thomas Posthumus Holte of Grislehurst Esq. it
appears that the latter indiyidual succeeded to a patrimonial Estate by yirtue of a
Set(lemen( of In(ai], made in 1627, on the marriage of his grandfather, Francis Holte
Esq. with Alice, daughter of John Ghreenhalgh of Brandlesome Esq. comprising the
Manors of SpoUand, Steed, and Forton, with lands in Button, Bibches(er, Blackburn,
Ac. which, in 1677, were yalued a( £4,000 per annum, no( including yaluable mines
of coal, lead, and o(her ndnerals ; which lands were originally conyeyed by Heniy
Vlll. (o Sir Thomas Hol(e of Ghislehurst. Being reduced to great neoessity by his
extrayagances, the said Thomas Posthumus Holte was obliged to sell all his pro-
perty ; and in order to bring himself into an Estate of fee simple^ suffered a Common
Becoyery at Lancaster, in 1650, and afterwards disposed of his Bfanors and Lands to
yarious purchasers. He afterwards liyed in Spotland, and for many years before his

478 iMttfa enaxinmbk.

Served by [the] Vicar [on] New Year's Day, Good Pryday,
and aome other Snndayes in [the] Smnmer time.

They Bury here, but are Baptized at Bibchester, firom whence
it is abont a quarter of a mile.
SilU. [Ehitton Hall,^ and Huntington HaU.^]

deailL was in tbsolnte want, being sappoiied entireljr by the charity of hia fijends and
the ndghbonring gentry ; and dying in 1677, withont iaane, Thomaa Holt^ an officer
in the army, killed at the negd of Londonderry, in 1689, and fiither of the Flaintifl^
claimed as the heir-at-law. The claim seema to have been allowed, but the Bntailhad
been barred by the Beoorery of 1660. It appears from theae proceedings that the
property at GrislehnrBt, **being the nsoal and antient aeat of the fiuniiy," was pur-
chased by Aleiander Holt of Little IGtton Esq. about the year 1651 ; bat no con-
nexion existed between the two fiunilies. — Zcmc. M8S. y oL ttjt. Whitaker, howerer,
has made a rery different statement. — HiH, of WkaUeyy p. 264. Although Stede was
originally a Parish, and its Church endowed with the Bectorial Tithes of eleren fiurms
in Button, the Adyowson yested in the Holtes, and the patronage exercised by them,
it has been degraded into a Parochial Chapel, and annexed to Bibchester : nor does it
appear that the Adyowson was alienated by Thomas Posthumns Holte when he sold
the Manor. The Chapel stands in a field, haying a cemetery, and appeared aban-
doned to neglect and decay ; but haying lately attracted the notice of Lord de TaUey
and a few other antiquaries, it is intended to restore this yery interesting edifice to
its fiirmer state. Diyine Seryice is now performed here on the last Sunday in eyety
month by the Vicar of Bibchester.

' Button HaQ is a spacious mansion of the time of Charles XL buiU by Bichard

Townley Gent, and is the property of Bothwell of flhaqiles Hall near Bolton

Esq.

> Huntington Hall is now a fivm-house, the property of John Holte of Stnbbylee
Esq.

Btanr^ of ILoiuftiale,' X^antasj^ire.

aa««ftC©;B.' Certit[ied] 271. ,

OO-OO^, Tiz. Glebe, 4>; all maimer of
||U Tyths, 22^; Surp-pice] fees and Eaat. t.
[er] does, lO; an Obiit Sermon, lO, m
gireii by Fran.[ci8] Croft Esq. rm

Patron, Mr. Le^ of Lime.

Qadit , daughter of Will.[iam]

de Kellet, gave to [the] Ab.[b^] of
Cokersand [a] mediety of [the] Chnreh of Claiton. Dodne.
lortk'g] MS.

Alice, daughter of Hen. [ry] de Croft, opposed y*pre8eut.[ation]
of 7* Abbey to thia Church. lb.

' When EirUi; Lonidmle beoune the head of a Bnrd Deanery, e
an likelihood, with the original Parish, ni
to mppoie that the Btml Deaneriea ware marked ont on the foondatioii of the Anh-
daaoonry of Biohmond, that ii, in the beginning of the twelfth centniy. Xqnal
nnoertaintj attend! the lepantion of the parti of Lamaahire, North of Bibblc^ and of
the Baron; of X«iidal, which hut now fbmu the lower portion of Weetmoralaad,
from the Torkihire i^DomMdag, One bid, howerer, ^pean incontrovertible, that
at the fbnndation of thii Bnral Deanei; the whole wm in Torfahire, and oooMqaentlj
that it WB« prior to the aeparatioD of Canntiea ; otherwiie it wonld not be eaa; to
MOOQut for another raroanutanoet namelf, that of the ten Paziahea which oompoae
the Tkaaarj of Kirkby Iionadale, Ato an in Lancaibire, foor in Yorkihins Mid one
in Weatmoreland.— R^jUfaalM-.

■ Dedicated to Bt. Chad. Vtloe to ISSi, £146. Begiiten begm in 1701.

In the DomMdag, Gacttu wm one of the twelve Haoon in OrBtrrio, belonging to
Torltn. Aooording to the Taita dt NnM, Oilbert de Edlet held the Uanor in the

480 fiatttU eei^triemfo*

An. [no] 1428, Patr.[on,] • • • Crofte Esq. Beg. Bowet, f. 80.

An. [no] 1628, Patr.[onJ Edw.[ard] Croft of Claughton. Inst,
[itution] B^lpok,] 2, p. 114; but upon [a] Jure Patronai^, an.
[no] 1680, S>^ Pet.[er] Legh was found Patron for that turn. lb.
p. 116.

An. [no] 1678, Gab.[riel] Croft esq. presented. lb. p. 150.

An. [no] 1681, Bicli.[ard] Legh esq. Patron. lb. p. 168.

reign of Henry m. ; and in the 18th Edward 11. John de CLanghton held a third,
John le Flemyng a third, and Henry Crofte held four parts, hy homage, serrioe, and
a rent of 12d. ; Clanghton and Crofte having acquired their shares from the Kellets.
The third part of the Manor was vested in the Crofts in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries} but in the 16th Henry YIII. John, and in the following year, Simon
Croft Esq. claimed the whole Manor. William Croft Esq. having joined in the
Bebellion of 1715, his lands were confiscated and sold in 1718, as those of ''a
traitor and popish recusant." The Manor had, however, passed before the year 1712,
to John Fenwick Esq. and was conveyed by the eldest sister of Nicholas Fenwick
Esq. who died in 1750, to her husband, John Wilson, whose son assumed the suniame
of Fenwick ; but on his death in 1794^ without issue^ the Estates descended to
Kicholas Tatham, son of John Tatham of Cantsfield House Esq. by his wife, the
second sister of Nicholas Fenwick Esq. He also assumed the surname of Fenwick ;
but dying s.p. devised the Estates to Thomas, son of Thomas Lambert of Eendal
Esq. who had married the third sister of Nicholas Fenwick Esq. He also assumed
the surname of Fenwiok, and, at his death, left issue a daughter. No Court is now
held for the Manor.

Dr. Whitaker says that this is the most diminutive Parish in the county — consist-
ing of a single Township — and that also a small one.

The Churoh was built about the time of Heniy L and contained some interesting
memorials of former times, until the hand of modem improvement swept them away,
when the sacred structure was rebuilt in 1815.

The Concher Book of Cokersand records that Goditha, daughter of William, son
of Oim de Kellet, gave to the Abbey a mediety of the Chureh of dacton, whieh was
afterwards confirmed by her son William. This donation took place in the time of
King John or Heniy III. Boger, son of Henry de Croft, gave the other medie<7 for
the soul of Henry, Xing of England. Alice de Crofi, in a lull Chapter of the Bvral
Deanery of Lonsdale, held in the Church of Tunstall, on the 18th of Febmaiy 137^
resigned her daim, (in the presence of the assembled Clergy and People^) to the Advow-
Bon of Claoton Church, having previously opposed the presentation of the Abbot and
Convent. In 1291 the *< Church of Chditon" was valued at £6. 13b. 4d.

The Manor of Dalton and the Advowson of the .Church of Clanghton, wero ob-
tained by Peter Legh of Lyme Esq. in marriage with MabfllUi daughter and heiress
of James Croft of Dalton Esq. She died in the year 1468. It uppednd^ hofwever,

•eastets of l4m09ale« 481

yal.[iie] 20 marks; Patr.[onsJ Mr. Lee and Mr. Middleton.
MS.L.

The Parish consists of but one little village called Claughton^ w^ Colotuf #
is ahont one Fifth part of y^ TownsP of Caton cum daughton.

2 Churchwardens.

CIanghton.3 ftxH.

ntltfCtni] of 501 given to y* Poor by Pran.[cis] Croft [Esq. C^xritv.
in 1690J now laid out in Land^' w**> y* other 10^ for a
Sermon.

SlASN«f,' Certif.[ied] 28i.05».02d, viz. Glebe, »; yj^
Pension from [the] Improp.[riatorJ 2i-13"«4d; Tyth m. t.

Hay and Hemp, 8^; Tyth Geese and Piggs, 1^; East. ^ ©".li. t»

[er] Dues, 121. 10«; Surp.pice] fees, 21. Ded.[uct] 5ff::; JioJioo
15" . 6d rent to [the] L* of y* Manour \ 2« • 8^ Syn. [odala.] . gm- ^

upon a JWv Fatnmabii^ that the Leghs only held the preeentation aUemis oietftw, [At WnyJ
the other Patron heing the Lord of the Manor of Glanghton. On the 18th of June
1660, Bichard Shnttleworth, John Starkie, George Figott Esqrs. and other Inquisi-
tors, returned that the Lorda of the Manor presented twioe^ and the heirs of Sir Peter
L^h of Lyme Sjit. onoe^ in turns, to the Vicarage. There was a Parsonage-house
and three acres of Glebe^ Tithes of Com, Ac. worth altogether £28 per annum ; and
£80 per annum was paid to Mr. Edward Aston B JL the Minister, by Order of the
Committee of Lancashire. — Pari. Inq, Lamb. lAbr.

The Adrowson was purchased by Thomas Fenwicfc Esq. about the year 1805, of
Thomas L^gh of Lyme Esq. and once more united to the Manor. The Patronage
If now Tested in the Trustees of Thomas Fenwick Esq. deceased.

' daughton Hall is a fine Elisabethan house^ with two square towers built for the
purpose of enjoying the noble scenery of the Yale of the Lune. It was the seat of
the Manerial owners.

' This is now a money payment of £2. 14s, 6d. a year from the Claughton Hall
Estate^ as in 1886 no sufficient endenoe could be produced to support a claim to
any particular parcel of land, although the Charity Commissioner appears to haye
thought that land had been originally purchased. — Seport of Char, Com,

> Dedicated to St. Peter. Value in 1884, £118. Begisters begin— Baptisms in
1626^ Burials in 1689, and Marriages in 1686 } all the earlier books imperfect.
VOL, II.] 3 Q

482 lIMttfa eo^trtemte.

Patron^ [the] Crown.

Improp. [riator J L^ Cardigan.

This Church was given to [the] Abbey of Croxton^ Com. Staf-
ford. MS. Eb.[or.'] Com. Leicest.[er.] 0.[W] K[e^ter,] p. 81.

This Church was given by Rog.[erJ E.[arl] of Poictiers, to
[the] Ab. [bey] of St. Martin's at Sayes ; but Hen. [ry,] Abbot of
Sayes^ and j^ Convent gave up this Church to Roger De Monte
Begonis^ and his heirs^ he quitting to them y« Chap, [el] of Ger-
singham. D.[ugdale's] Mon.[a8ticon,'] v. 1, p. 567. V.[idel

TUNSTALL.

An. [no.] 1429, Pat.[ron, the] Ab.[bey] of Croxton, of the
Prem.[onstratensian] Ord.[er,] Idncobi Dioc.[e8e.] V.[ide] Insi,
[itution,'] Reg, Bowet, f. 88.

At the Domesday Siurey, Mellinge, Homebi, and Wennigetun, are named as one
Manor, placed hj the Norman SurrejorB, in Crayen in Yorkshire, and in whidi Vlf
had nine and a half camcates. Boger of Foictiers appears to haTe been the first
Manorial owner after the Conquest; on his defection, the Manor passed to Adam
de Montbegon, and was sold by his descendant, Henry de Monegheden, in the 11th
Henry III. to Hubert de Burgh, Chief Justice of England, Shortly after this the
Manor passed, but it does not appear in what manner, to the family of LonguevillierS)
and before the 54th Henry III. was conveyed by the marriage of Maigaret, daughter
of Sir John de Longuevilliers, to Geofirey, son of Geoffrey de Nevile, whose descend-
ant, Margaret Nerile, married the Duke of Exeter ; but haying no surriying issue, it
eventually descended to Sir William Harrington and Margaret his wife, daughter of
Sir Eobert Nevile, and coheiress of her niece the Duchess of Exeter. Sir John
Harrington left issue two daughters and coheiresses, Anne, married to Sir Edward
Stanley, "a name unhappily famous in the annals of Hornby," afterwards Lord
Monteagle ; and Elizabeth, whose first husband was John Stanley of Melling Esq.
son of James Stanley D.D. Bishop of Ely. Lord Monteagle obtained Hornby Oastle,
and its dependencies, from his nephew, Thomas, the second Earl of Derby, whose
fiither appears to have secured them, in conjunction with his uncle, on the attainder
of James Harrington Esq. brother of Sir John, in the Ist Heniy YII. Elizabeth,
heiress of WUliam Stanley, the third and last Lord Monteagle, of that name, nuurried
Edward Parker, Lord Morley, after the year 1581 ; and his descendant, Thomaa, Lord
Morley and Monteagle, conveyed the Estates, by sale, in 1663, to Bobert Brudenell,
afterwards second Earl of Cardigan. They were again sold in 1713^ by hb grandson,
Gborge, third Earl of Cardigan, to Colonel Francis Charteris, who died in 1782,
leaving a daughter and heiress, Janet, married in 1720, to James, fourth Earl of
Wemyss, who died in 1756^ and by whose son, Francis Charteris, the fifth Earl, the
Estates of his maternal grandfather were sold in 1789, to John Marsden of Wen<

Beotms af iMwMk* 488

VaL [ue] 20 marks ; Patr. [on, the] Abbey of Croxton. MS, L.

An. [no] 1625| [the] Crown presented. ImLlitution] B.[ook,'\
2, p. 76,

[The] Parish [is] divided into 4 Quarters; 1^ Melling, Wra- Cafiotuf.
ton, [Wrayton,] and Wenington; 2, Archobn and Caywood; 8,
Hornby, Roborondale, [Boebumdale,] and Farleton; 4s, Wray
and Bolton. The two last Quarters are under Hornby Chappell,
and y^ second under Archobn Chap, [el.]

nington Hall Esq. who, in 1797, obtained an Act of Parliament to enable him to
enclose and divide the Commons of the Honor and Manor, being three thousand
acres. This gentleman died, issueless, in 1826; and after much remaclLable litigation,
in which the uncertainty of the law was evinced and its final triumph vindicated, the
estates were confirmed in 1886, to Bear Admiral Sandford Tatham, son of the Bev.
Sandford Tatham M.A. Yicar of Appleby, and of Elizabeth his wife, second daughter
of Henry Marsden of Wennington Hall Esq. On the death of Admiral Tatham on
the 24th of January 1840, the Estates passed to his kinsman, Pudsey Dawson of
Langdiffe Hall in the county of York and of Hornby Oastle Esq.

The Church of Melling was given by Boger de FoictierB to his recently founded
Priory of Lancaster, and Abbey of ^ees, and afterwards exchanged by the Priory with
Boger de Montbegon, who died in the 10th Henry in. for the Chapel of Gb^seing-
bam, Boger de Montbegon stipulating with the Monks that every Incumbent to be
presented by him, or his heirs, to the Church of Melling, should pay yearly de. for
Lights at Easter in St. Mary's Church, Lanoaster, for the health of his soul, and the
souls of his aneeetors.

The Advowson of Melling was sold, with the Manor, to Hubert de Burgh ; but
ihey ware shortly afterwards divided, as the Tetia de NemlT records that the Church
is in the King's donation. In 1291 it was valued at £40. In the fourteenth century
it was oonferred upon the Abbot and Convent of St. John of Croxton Keyrial in
Leieestershire, founded by William le Porter, (in 1162,) with whom it continued until
the Disflolution of the Monasteries, when it became vested in the Crown, where it still

The Norman arch of the South doorway was preserved when the preeent Churoh, a
large heavy stmoture consisting of Chancel, Nave, Aisles, and a Tower, was rebuilt,
some centuries ago ; and also when the interior was beautified in 1760. The South
East Aisle of the Church is the burial place of the Lords of Wennington. In the
Chancel are two ancient monumental stones, one of which, deprived of its brasses,
probably covers the remains of Thomas, second Lord Monteagle, who, by his Will,
dated 1660, desired sepulture here.

In 1660 the Vicarage was returned as presentative under the Great Seal of England,
the Tithes of Com and Grain Impropriated to liord Morley, a Papist delinquent,
and worth £260 per annum. Ten acres of Globe belonged to the Church, and all the

484 jptdtitiA etmMnmin.

[There are] 4 Churchw.[ardenB] for Melling Church, who
senre for that Qoarter.
SalL No ancient Seats^ but Hornby Caatle^^ late Ifi Cardigan's ; now

Coll.[onel] Charteris's.

i^c^oL MR tds [the] Int. [erest] of 2(y given by Tho. [mas] Cort^ for
SMR teaching poor Children to read in Archolm and Caywood.

C^xritv. WBM '^^^ ^7 ^^P^* [^] ^^^* [^"^] Pooley to [the] Poor of
HH [the] whole Parish^ 20^^ [the] Int. [erest to be] distrib.
[uted] yearly.

CofDtuLS. ^M^^l^^^^^ ^^^ Cawooo^ Certif.

^sS [ied] 8^*10'-00^^ arising from seyerall
small smns called ''Priest's Wages/' paid out of j^ Estates of

[the] Inhab.[itants] w**»in y« Chappelry.

small Tithes, being worth altogether £80 per annum ; and £50 per annmn had been
allowed, out of the seqaestered Rectory of Lord Morlej, to Mr. John Smith, who had
been removed to another Church in Northumberland, so that the PiMriah was then
without a Minister. — Pari. Ikq, Lamb. Libr. There is a Yioamge-house.

' Hornby Castle stands on the site of a Boman yilla, and commands a noUe pros-
pect of the rich and rariegated Tallies of the Wenning and the Lone. The Castle
was originally built by Nicholas de Montbegon, and consists of two parts, — the mora
ancient part being dilapidated. The foundations of two round Towers, probably
built by the Neriles, were removed a few years ago. Edward, first Lord Montague^
built the Square Keep. In 1617 James I. rested at Hornby Castle on his progress
firom Edinburgh to London. Li 1648 the Parliament ordered the Castle to be so de-
molished that the Boyalists could not use it. The extensire repairs by Mr. Marsden
have rendered the appearance of the Castle yery magnificent. A centre and two
wings conceal the ancient parts. A view of this firont is giren in Whitaker's Sui. qf
Siehmondthiref toL iL The Park contains a herd of deer.

1 Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £61. Begisters at Melling.

Arkhohne — the Ergune of Domesday — has nerer been disserered firom the Honor
of Hornby.

The principal Birer is the Lune^ which, sometimes swelling into high floods, com-
mits great damage by oyerflowing the flat holmes, or low groimds a^acent to its
banks. The clear and stony Wenning, firom the neighbouring hills of Yorkshire^ is

•fosievs of l^mssQale* 485

It is parted from y^ Par. [ish] Church by a great Biver^ which
is often unpassable.

[The] Curate preaches every Sunday^ and reads Prayers every
Holy-day.

Storrs Hall.^ ^OL

School. V.[ide] sup.[ra] Mellino.

ASIM1S$»^ an ancient Market Town. ^^
Certif.[ied] & • 13" • 44^ arising from CofDnK.8.
severall small sums called '^ Priest's Wages/' paid out of y^
Estates of [the] Inhab. [itants J at Easter only.
Above a mile from [the] Par. [ish] Church.
[The] Curate preaches every third Sunday.
2 Chap, [el] Wardens.

the secondaxy Birer of MeOing FariBh, which it enten at a short diBtanoe Bast of
Hornby, and having run little more than a mile and a hal^ skirtuig in its oonrse the
base of the moimt on which the Castle of Hornby is erected, is lost in the Lnne.

A Ohapel existed here at the Beformation ; and in the year 1660 " Aaram Chappel
has £4. 18s. 4d. as yett allowed, and antiently had it paid by the Inhab^ of the
CSiapehy." Mr. Foster, their Minister, also reodred £40 per annum, as an augmen-
tation, oat of the Seqaestered Tithes of Melling, by order of the Oonunittee of Plun-
dered Ministen. The Inhabitants desired to hare a Parish, and a better settled
maintenance for a Minister. — Pari, Inq. Lofkb, Libr, In 1662 Mr. James Talbot,
the Mmister, was ejected from it. There are no Marriages solemnised nor Burials at
Arkhofane. The Chapel is an old and plain structure, and has lately been repewed,
and a yestiy added, by Tolimtary subscription. There is a Parsonage-house. The
Yioar of Melling nominates the Curate.

' Storrs HaQ is an ancient mansion, with taU gables and grouped chimneys, and is
the property of the Ber. Henry Askew, the descendant of Dr. Anthony Askew, and a
representatiye of the Bawlinsons of Greenhead, both memorable names in the annals
of literature and science. — Nichols' LU. Anec. yoL m. p. 404 ; and Lam!, MS8. yol.
ziL where a Pedigree and some account of the Bawlinsons may be found.

> Dedicated to St. Margaret. Value in 1884>, £92. Bcgisters begin in 1742.

The descent of the Honor and Manor of Hornby is already gifen imder the Manor
of MBLUira, which was one of the chief dependencies of Hornby.

Here was formerly a Priory, dedicated to St. Wilfred, being a small Premonstra-
tensian Cell of Crozton Keyrial in Leicestershire. It was resigned before the Visita-

486 0MtttiA ee Mdemto*

fSSxap ^S^ evf is a School^ endowed w^ [the] Int.[erest] of 200^ left
tt^aah ^Jg by Capt. [ain] Rich, [ard] Pooley, an. [no] , who ap-

pointed 8 Trosteea, and the Bight al Nominating y^ Master to be
in them.

The money is laid out upon Land.

tion, when its reveiiTies, according to tlie serranta of Henxy Vlll, deriyed from ten
Townaliipa, amonnted to £80. 199. 3d. In the 86th Henry Vlll. it was granted, as
parcel of Croxton, to Sir Thomas Stanley, afterwards Lord Monteagle. ''Homhy
Yic. Ofdinatio Yicaris, in or before 1849, a Book entitled Teetam. mailed o. p. 85 ;
B^. de demiss. marked t. A. p. 28 ; 2' ibid, marked t. b. p. 98 ; Beg. Joh. Bokebj,
marked T. m. p. 40.** — Ducarel's Repertory, Latkb, Libr. But this was probably
Hornby in the North Biding of Toi^hire, not Hornby in Melling.

To the Priory succeeded the Chapel of Hornby, built for the Lord's tenmta, and
now Parochial to Hornby, Farleton, Boebumdale, and Wray with Bottom. Edward,
Lord Monteagle, by Will dated the 6th of April 1523, says, *'I gire my bodie to be
buried in the new Chancell to be made at my costes and charges, with all oonyenient
haste, at y* est of y* Chapell of S*. Margarett at Hombie ; and I will that my Execa-
tors bestow and expend in and about y* wall, buildings, frameworke, glass, and
eoYttringe of y* same newe Chanoell, y* sum of c. m'kes, and more if it shall be seen
zequiaitD by my said Ex'ors, and more for y* hallowing of y*' saide ChapeD and
Churohe yaxde, as shall be required. And in ease 1 dep*t this life before the haDow-
XDg of said Chapdl and Chapell yarde, then my body, for the time^ to be humate
within y* Priorie Churche of Hombie ; and I farther wille, that on y* next daye aft'
y* dedication of y* said Chapell, my bodye to be ffrhumate and transferred, with y*
consent and assist* of y* Pryor there^ which hath granted me y* same, y* «aee hap-
pening in his dayes, and of other haying interest, and soe to bee brought and buried
within y* new Chancell aforesayde.**

In 1660 it was stated that Hornby Chapel was a mile from the Pariah Ckurdi.
£6 per annum had been andantly, and was then paid by the Inhabitants to the Mi-
nister, and £40 per annum out of the sequestered Tithes of Lord Moriey arising from
the Chapeliy, being worth altogether £140 per annum. Mr. Eiddson, the Minister,
was described as *' an honest godly man ;" and the Inhafaitauts humbly desired that
their Chiq^elry might be made a separate Parish of itsell — PmrL Inq. Lamb, lAbr.
Hie Naye was rebuilt in 1817. Mr. Dawson, the owner of Hornby OMtle^ is the
Patron.

9umnp 0f limfAale* 487

«aiRa^i Certif.ped] 5©. 4^.001 p.[er] im.[iiiim,] jj^ § * *
viz. Pars. [onage] House and Glebe, 20^; Tyths of^.-g-J-J
Wooll, Lamb, and Calf, 7^; Tyth of Com and other p^

Prsediall Tyths, 24^; East.[er] dues and Surp.[lice] ^p ^

fees, 11; I>ed.[uct] Tenths, li.4».6d; Syn.[odal8,] 1»; Pee fana
Bent, 6d.

Patron, L^ Cardigan.

Val.[ue] Iff. Patr.[on,] L^ Monteagle. MS. Mb.^ar.] MS. L.

An.[no] 1629, [a] Rectour presented by virtue of a Grant from

L^ Monteagle, [the] true Patron. In8t.[itiUion] B.[ook,'] 2, p. 115.

^ Dedicated to St. James. Value in 1834, £195. BegiBten begin in 1568.

Pr. Whitaker considers that Taiham signifies the habitation of Tata^ a personal
name, which was continued in that of the local fiunilj. King John, when Earl of
Morton, gave the services of William de Tatham, in Tatham and Ireby^ to Boger de
Montbegon. Tatham passed ft-om the local family before the 84th Edward lU. in
which year Thomas, third son of Banulph de Dacre, covenanted, as Lord of the
Manor of Tatham, with Biehard Townelej of Townelej, that he would settle on
his son and heir apparent, Edmund de Dacre, on his marriage with Alice, daughter
of the said Richard de Townelej, the Manor and Advowson of Tatham, and other
Manors. EHzabeth, daughter and coheiress of Thomas, son of Edmund Dacre^ mar-
ried Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby, and died in the 2d Biehard m. Since this
acquisition of the Manor and Advowson, Tatham has passed, with the Honor of
Hornby, as an independent and distinct Manor, with an Advowson.

The Church is a small building ; the Windows are chiefly semi-circular and small.
The cavetto Doorway is attributed by Dr. Whifcaker, to the Norman period; but
the narrow Arch between the Nave and Tower, which he was disposed to pronounce
more decidedly Saxon than any remnant of architecture in Bichmondshire, it is said
no longer exists. The Steeple was built in 1722. Three ancient grave-stones still
remain in the Chancel, one of which exhibits a plain shaft ; another is decorated with
a cross and sword ; and the third by a triangularly shaped book ; " proofs," adds Dr.
Whitaker, "if any were wanting, that the Beneficed Ecclesiastics of the North, in
those days, did not hold themselves excused, either by the immunities or the decen-
cies of their profession, firom defending themselves, in person, against the rapine and
violence to which they were exposed from their proximity to the borders." In 1650
Lord Morley, a Papist delinquent, was returned as Patron. A Parsonage-house,
sixteen acres of Glebe, Tithes of Com and Qrain in Tatham, and small Tithes
throughout the Parish, amounted to £52 per annum ; and forty marks were added to
the Salary of Mr. Nicholas Smith, the Bector, by order of the Committee of Lanca-

488

^tttbi Cfi^trfemte*

Hsu.

An. [no] 1660j 1/ Morley and Monteagle himself presented. lb.
p. 187.
2 Churchwardens.
One Town, [ship.]
Tatham.^

ete is a Free School^ endowed by Jam.[e8] Bonskill with
88^^ which is secured upon Lands. Certif.[ied] an. [no]

1722^ James Bousfield^ Master^ nominated by Oliver Becket^ [the]

surviving FeoflFee.

ttsmUtf 1.

^mit^m jfWUL,^ Certif.[ied] »,
viz. li«l"«0^, Int.[ere8t] of money;
igdi given by L^ Morley, and charged upon Lands in j^ LordP.

4m.[iles] from [the] Par.[ish] Church.

One large Hamlet.

[The] Curate reads Prayers, and a Homily, on Sundays.

shire for SeqaeatrationB. — PchtL Inq, Lamb, lAhr, toL iL Padsej Dftwson Esq. if
the Patron.

' Tatham Hall, now called Hall Baroa, and appropriated as a fivm-house^ is mir-
ronnded by a moat. It was the Manor-home in the time of Leland, who Baya, "the
HarringtoniB had, in ancient time^ a &ire Manor place oanlled Tateham, now in a
manner desolated."

The situation of the Ohnrch, the Hall, and the Parsonage is delightfol; and yet
about the latter, there is an air of abandonment and a want of that exact attention,
which is usually produced by the residence of an Incumbent. — Whitaker^s UithmiomA-^
Mtt^ yoL iL p. 268. The evil has long ceased to exist.

^ Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £126. Begisters begin in 1746. Ko
Marriages.

The Boman road from Bibchester to Overburrow passes on the North side of the
small Chapel of Tatham Fell, of which Whitaker knew not the antiquity ; but it is
mentioned in the year 1577. In 1650 it is also mentioned as being Atc miles from
the Ohurch of Tatham, '* standing quite beyond any Inhabitants of the Parish, Teiy
unconyeniently." The only salary of the Minister was 6O9, annualfy, and anciently
paid by the Inhabitants. £40 a year was at thai time paid by order of the Com-
mittee of Plundered Ministers, out of the sequestered Bectory of MeQing, to Mr.
Drinckhall, who has been handed down to posterity as ''an honest," and, I hope^

Seanerj? ^f l^otwDale. 489

aWrSaraMU* Certif.[ied] 21i.00".00d p.[er] an. v.
[numj viz. Tyth Woolly Lamb^ Calves^ and other 9lusin»
Small Tyths, 201; Surp.pice] fees, l^. £. * a

Patron, Mr. Borrett. syiiV.Vo.' a! 8

This Rectory belonged to [the] Mon.[a«tery] of Croxton, Lei-
ce8t.[er] shire. 13l«6»-8<i [is] payable out of it to [the] School at p»p- '.""' "
Whalley, by Lett, [ers] Patent from Q. [een] Eliz. [abeth.] V. [ide]
Case of fVhalley School, Pap, Reg,

By an Order made in [the] Court of Augm.[entation in the]
86th H.[enry] 8, and confirmed [in the] 4th Eliz. [abeth,] 4i.6».8d
was to be paid to the Archd.[eacon] of Bichm^ out of y* Churches
of Tunstall and Overleke, parcel of y« Mon.[a8tery] of Croxton,
for Proc. [urations] and Syn.[odals.] Reg,\t8ter^ p. 81.

■

a sober *< Miniflter." — Par?. Inq, Lamb, lAbr. The Chapel was rebuilt in 1840.
^Hie Sector of Tatham nominates the Cnrate.

The hce of the country here is extremely rugged, but the scenery of the Parish is
frequently grand, and in some parts of it highly picturesque and beautiful

1 Dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Value in 1834, £832. Registers begin in 1626.

At the Domesday Survey, Tunstall was one of the four Manors of Benetain belong-
ing to Chetel, and the name appears to denote the town of the Station, Orerburrow in
this Parish being unquestionably the Bremetonac» of the Itineraries. Tunstall had
been separated at a yery early period from the Saxon Parish of Kirkby Lonsdale.
Under the Normans, it was annexed to the Barony of Hornby, and held by Roger de
Montbegon. In the 47th Edward III. the Manor was held by Sir William de Tun-
•tall, whose father, Henry de Tunstall, possessed lands in Lancashire in the 17th
Edward n. The Manor was forfeited by the attainder of Sir Bichard Tunstall in
1464 ; but the Act of Attainder was reversed and the Estates restored to him in the
14th Edward lY. His descendant, Francis Tunstall Esq. living in the year 1687,
sold the possessions of his ancestors, before the year 1612, to Nicholas Girlington of
Girlington, afterwards of Thuriand, from whom they passed, by sale, after the death
of John Girlington Esq. in 1706, to the family of Welch. Robert Welch of Leek in
Tunstall Esq. who died in 1775, is said to have sold the entire Manor of Thuriand,
and the Advowson of Tunstall Vicarage, to Miles North of ^EGbkby Lonsdale Esq.
who was suooeeded by his soA, Richard Toulmxn North Esq. who, in 1818, obtained
an Aot for enclosing about thirteen hundred acres of waste land within his Manors of
TunstaU and Whittington.

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490

fiatttU Centrfrmifk

Val.[ue] 1&. Patr.[on, the] Abbey of Croxton.

An. [no] 1612, [a] Vic.[ar] pres.[ented] by Grant from John

Girlington Esq. [the] trne Patron. Inst, [iiuiion] B. [pok,"] 2, p. 52.

CufDtur* [The] Parish [is] divided into 4 Quarters: 1, Tonstall; 2,

Burrow, (consisting of 8 Hamlets ;) 4^ Leek, (w^ has likewise 3

Hamlets ;) and 4, Cantsfield.

[There are] 4 Churchwardens for y 4 Quarters; each of w<*
names 2 for y« next year to [the] Min. [ister :] and he chooses one.

Augm.[ented] w^ 2001 an. [no] 1719, by Mr. Withers, the
Vicar.
ff^ax. Thurland Castle.^

#c(aal.

ere is a petty School; [the] endowm^ is betw.[een] 20* and
80> p.[er] an. [num.]

The Church is uBmed in the Valor of 1291, and was valued at £26. 18b. 4d. Prior
to the year 1845, the Adrowson was Tested in the Abbot and Convent of Crozton
Eeyrial, and continued with them until the Dissolution of the Beligious Houses.
In the 85th Elizabeth, Francis Tunstall of Thurland Esq. exercised the patronage^
which was afterwards possessed by the Girlingtons, and is now an appurtenant of the
Manor. The Church is supposed to have been rebuilt by Sir Thomas Tunstall, who
lived in the reigns of Henry lY. and Henry V . and whose mutilated stone effigy, with
a conical helmet, still remains on the South side of the Altar rails. The architecture
is late perpendicular. Brian Tunstall Esq. in his Will dated the 16th of August 1518,
gives '* to the Church workes of Tunstall, iii^ vi". viii**. and desires to be buried in the
ouiwctrd part of the Church of Seynt Mychaell of Tunstall," which is not the modem
dedication. In 1650 the Inquisitors reported that the heirs of Sir John Girlington, a
delinquent, deceased, were the Patrons. The Parsonage and Tithes were impropriated
to Mr. Edward Wilson of Nether Levens in the county of Westmoreland, and worth
£120 per annum. No Tithe Com or Hay belonged to the Yicar. He had the
Small Tithes, which were valued at £80. per annum before the decay of sheep and
agriculture, (owing to the Civil Wars,) but then only worth £15 per annum. — JParL
Inq, Lamb. labr. vol. ii. A Chantry existed in this Church, endowed with £4 a year
by John Hornby, issuing out of lands in Ireby. It was dissolved by Edward YI. and
re-instituted by Queen Mary. Whitaker says the Bectory was charged with an
annuity of twenty marks for the support of a Schoolmaster at Whalley, by Letters
Patent of Edward YI. the Eoimder. This annuity is still psid. — Ckar. Com. lUp. '

s Thurland Castle was founded by Sir Thomas Tunstall, who obtained a Licence
from Henry lY. to fortify and kernel or embattle it. It encloses an irregular MignUy
Court, which is approached through a Gateway on the West. To the right, was a

Seamtrs of lotudMle* 491

»SClt>* OVBBLBKB^ 9Mb TUNSTALL. ftxmltU, 3.
Certif.[ied] 2i.18-.00*, viz. Int.[ere8tl
of money, 2^.5*. 00*; and 18*^ arising out of Land.
8 m.[iles] from [the] Par.[i8li] Church.

Uncertainly served. Curate Licensed an. [no] 1695. V.[ide]
Sttbs.[cripti(m] B.{ook.]

[The] yic.[ar] of Tunstall preaehes 4 times in y* year; and
reads Prayers sometimes.

»»8r8r»N«a:«W about 1201 p.[er] an.|:num.] «,..S.ob.«»
Patron, Mr. Cairns, a Papist.

Yal.[ue] 40 marks. Pat.[ron,] Mr. Huddleston.
M8.L.

fljMcioiiB domestic Chapel. The Towen and Battlements of the whole being enr-
rounded by a deep droolar moat, gire it a fortress-like aspect. Leland described it
•6 *'aa ancient Oastle or Manor place of stone, of the Tonstalls." It sustained a
long siege in the year 1648 ; bnt was left a ruin. A few apartments were fitted up
by John Girlington Esq. for his Shrieralty of Lancashire in 1661. Of this fiunily
were Oathbert Tunstall, the learned and amiable Bishop of Durham, the friend of
Erasmus and Sir Th<«uis More; and Sir Brian Tunstall, '*the stainless Ejiight,*'
who fill at Slodden. Considerable additions and restorations, in the castellated
style, were made between the years 1812 and 1827, by Bichard Toulmin North Esq.

> Patron Saint unknown. Value in 18S4, £60. Begisters at TnnstaU.

This Township belonged to the Gemots, Lords of Halton, before the 17th John ;
and Boger Gemot died seiced of it in the 86th Henry m. In the reign of Edward
m. it was held by the Tunstalls, and has shwed the same &te with the rest of their
Lancashire possessions. Bobert Henry Welch Esq. whose grand&ther, Bobert
Welch, sold the Manor of Tunstall, resides here.

The Chapel is andent, and in the year 1650 was reported to be three miles from
the Pariah Church, and two miles from the Church of Thornton in the county of
York, and the Inhabitants desired to be made Parochial They had at that time nei-
ther Minister nor maintenance : but Mr. John Leake M.A. Vicar of TnnstaU, some-
times supplied the Cure. The Vicar of Tunstall is the Patron.

> Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £415. Begisters of Baptisms and
Burials b^gin December 18th 1588 ; of Marriages, 1559.

1

482 0am» Cnrtdnwte.

An. [no] 1676^ Fran. [gib] Tunstall Esq. presented. IngL[Uu^
iion] B.[ook,'] 1. Pap. B.look,'] p. 8.
ColDtur. 1. [The Parish] is diyided into 8 Villages^ viz. Whittington, New-
ton^ and Docker.

[There are] 4 Churchwardens; 2 for Whittington, [and] 2 for
y« other Villages. The old Churchw.[ardens] name 8, out of w*"*
7^ Bect.[our] chooses four new ones.

The Church [is] in a very ruinous condition^ an. [no] 1717.
»«W. Whittington,2 West Hall,^ and Sellett,*

The Manor of Witetme of the Saxon period — and the Whitnne of Dowtesdagf —
was held about the reign of King John, by Robert Fits GKhnuth; in the 88th
Henry m. it was the property of Balph de Bethtun ; and in the 17th Edward IL it
had passed to the C^hynes' or De Coneys, being held under the great fee of Hornby.
In the 46th Edward III. it was held, in moieties, by the De Coupelands, who snc-
oeeded the De Coneys, and by Sir John de Harington of Farleton. The Lord of
Hornby, in the time of Henry VIU. and again in the time of Jamas L claimed Whit-
tington as a mesne Manor ; but it was held by James Bordrigge in the 17th Charies I.
and an heiress of this £unily having married Biohard North Esq. his grandson it the
present Manorial owner.

The Church existed in 1291, and was then valued et ^610. 18s. 4d. From this
period the Adyowson appears to have been vested in the Coupelands, Lords of part
of the Manor; the Hodlestons, IxMrds of West Hall, under Hornby; and the Ton-
stalls, Lords of Hornby ; until the time of Queen Elisabeth, when the latter fuBily
appears to have obtained the Advowson. It was purchased before 1716, by Edmund
Hornby Esq. and is now held by his representative, Edmund Hornby of Dalton
Hall near Burton in Kendal Esq. In 1650 Thomas Came Esq. a Papist delinquent,
was said to be the reputed Patron of the Bectory. The endowment consisted of
two acres of Glebe, the Tithes of Com and Grain, and the small Tithes, except Hay
in Docquer, [Docker,] where a prescriptive rent was paid. The whole was valued
at £127 a year. Mr. Biohard Jackson M JL was the Minister. The Ghuroh consists
of a Ghaaoel, Nave^ Aisles, and a Tower. The architecture is late perpendicular.
The South Aisle was rebuUt about the year 1716, (Bainea* JZiilofy,) but dearly after
1717.

s Whittington Hall appears to have been built by Miles Huddleston Esq. in the
sixteenth centuiy ; and was rebuilt in 1881 by the present owner, Thomas Greene
Esq. M.P.

' West Hall, within Whittington, existed in the fifteenth oentmy, and was conveyed
to the Huddlestons in the 2lBt Henry Till. 1629, by Thomas Stanley, Lord Mon^
eagle, to be held of his BCanor of Whittington ; on which terms it was held, as a
Manor, in the reign of Queen Elisabeth, by Miles Huddleston Esq. the joint Patron

•eAmtrs of iMoiOuk. 498

flietl to [the] Poor by severall persons^ 81^; [the] Int. €JfKcitM.
[erest to be] distributed yearly.

of tbe JAfing. Shortly after this it passed to the Crofts, and afterwards to the
&mily of Gams. It is now the property, by purchase, of Thomas Greene of Slyne
Esq. M.P.

^ Sellet Han was probably built by Robert Baynes Gent, who held lands here in
the 34th Elisabeth. Lucas, the Leeds antiquary, in the time of Queen Anne, says,
''A long race of gentlemen of the name of Baynes, resided at Sellett HalL** The Hall
haa long been in the fiunily of Harrison of KendaL

Seanr^ of JFumes antr Cartmell,'

(aPrton;)

Aot mtntfoneti tn M£^* %, but tfie Cibingtf.

(bi|. 4,) pat in ilniliaU B.Ecaiters.]

CancaK^frr*

a^9<^^!3iM,' about 2001 p. [»]
ftD.[Qimi.] Patron, the Crown.

Val.[ne] 100 markB. Patr.[oD,] lA
of Marque. [?] M8. L.

An.[no] 1546, Patron, [the] Mar-
quis of Dorset. Irut.[itution] B.[ooi,']
1, p. 31.

[The] Parish [is] divided into 4
1, Aldinghanij Beacliff, Snnbreak, and Half of Scales;

I LoiTKDAU, north of the Sands, inclading the DUtriot of OartmBl ud Famaw, fbnoed
port of the connt; pf Weatmoreluid, in the jear 1S9I ; but that diitriot now bdongi
to LancMhire. The tereral Manors oomprehended within the Lordsh^ of Forniiw,
are the Hanon of Fnrnett, TJlTentone, and UuohlAud, with Toiror, in each of which
ft Conrt Leet and Conit Baron maj be held g the Hanon of Dalton, Egton and New-
land, and Hawkebead, in each of which a Court Baron onlj can be held f and the
UanoT of SeriU SUl j all which Manors belong to the Lord of the libertj : the
Manon of Conishcad and Btrdsea, and the Manor of Bbwith, for whioh no Courts
are now held) the Manor of Kirkbf, (bi which 'a Conrt Baron maybe held) the
Hmiot of Bolton and Adgarlej, the Manor of Diumerdals and Smthwaite, tbe
Manors of Lowick, Bronghton, Pennington, and Coniston, for each of which a Court

Seaners of j^bmeufi «M CattmeL 495

2, Boosebeck^ Newbiggin, Colt Park, [Call Park J and Moat ; 3,
Leese and Dendron ; 4, Gleaston and half of Scales. For which
Quarters there are 4 Churchwardens, each of w<^^ chooses two for
next year, and out of y™ y« Min. [ister chooses] one.

Aldingham.3 K«IU

Baron is now held ; bat in none of those Manors belonging to other lands, is there
any Conrt Leet. — West's SiHory qfl^tmess,

Camden deriyes the etymology of Fumess from its projection into the bay, •»<!
deems it equiyalent to Foreland, or the I^romoniorium Anterims of the Latin.
William the Conqueror ga^e the district to Boger of Poictiers ; and in the year
1126, Stephen, Earl of Boulogne, conferred the Lordship, except the lands of
Michael le Fleming, on the Abbey of Fumess, where it remained until the Disso-
lution, when it rererted to the Crown. In 1662 it was granted to George, Buke of
Albemarle, and hb heirs ; and is now held by the Duke of Bucdeuoh, to whom the
Albemarle Estates haye descended.

* Dedicated to St. Cuthbert. Value in 1834, £1,093. Registers begin in 1638.

At the Norman Surrey, Aldingham was held by Emul^ who had six camcates, to
be taxed. It was immediately afterwards granted to Michael Flandrensis, or Le
Fleming, sometimes called Michael de Fumess, who is supposed to have accompanied
William the Conqueror to England, and to have been living as late as 1158, (West's
Hutortf ofFwmeWy pp. 24, 25 ;) though a more reasonable conjecture would include
at least two indiyiduals of these names.

Sir Michael le Fleming, the descendant of the original grantee, having been
drowned in the Leven, and leaving no issue, his sister Alice carried the inheritance^
by marriage, to John Cancefleld of Cancefield in the Parish of TunstalL On the
death of William, brother of John de Cancefield, in 1278, the Manor of Alding-
ham passed to Sir Bobert de Haverington, or Harington, in right of his wife,
Agnes, sister and heiress of WiUiam de Cancefield. His son. Sir William de Haver-
ington, had a Licence for making a Park in his Manor of Aldingham, in the 14th
Edward III. ; and was summoned to Parliament, as a Baron, from the 18th Edward
IL to his death in the 21st Edward III. Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William,
Lord Harrington of Aldingham, who died in 1457, married WiUiam, Lord Bonvile of
Chuton, whose son and heir became Lord Harrington ; and bemg killed in 1460, at
the Battle of Wakefield, his only daughter and heiress, Cecilia^ married Thomas G-rey,
creat-ed Marquess of Dorset by Edward lY. to whom she conveyed the Manor. His
grandson, Henry, (fieither of Lady Jane Ghrey,) created Duke of Suffolk by Edward YL
was beheaded by Queen Mary in 1554, and the Manor and Advowson became forfeited
to the Crown, where they still remain. The present Lessee of the former is Colonel
BraddyU.

The Church is attributed to the first Michael le Fleming, as the Founder. It is
supposed to have been rebuilt by an early Harrington, and renewed about the time of

406 fMitia Centrietifito*

€^uxititi. HBI ^^ ^y ^' ^^^^ Preston^ 3 Pensions of 5 marks each.

Given by 8 Inhab. [itants the] Int.[ere8t] of 2(B.

SNSiieKi An. [no] 1644, a Chap-
pell being built in this Township by
Bob. [ert] Dickenson, he gave by Will 200^ to a Sufficient Scholar,
to read Divine Service there every Sunday, and to teach School in
it on Week Dayes, w<^ money he ordered to be laid out in Land.

Henry Y. In 1291 the LiTing was valued at £58. 6b. 8d. The interior ia chiefly
remarkable for its three (^lindrioal Colnmna on the South side, the deeply-channelled
Archea resting upon them, and a cironlar Door-way — all parts of the original atnxo-
tttre. The Tower is large, and supported by buttresses ; but the Naye is long, low,
and narrow, and white-washed externally. In 1650 the Patronage was Tested in the
Duohy of Lancaster. Mr. Fleming of Bydall had about 40s. a year from the Impro-
priated Com Tithe. There was a Bectory-houae and two and a half acres of Glebe
and Tithe, worth altogether £140 per annum. The Sector was Mr. Thomaa Shaw,
MJL a pains-taking Minister, and a man of good oonyersation. — Fori, Inq, Lamb*
Libr, "Aldingham Beet. Modus in lieu of Tithe, Hemp, Hax, and Hay, see the Case
of TuUyyer.Sjhusr, 11th Feb. 1722. Bunbury, 191."— Ducarel's ^q^r^. Theliying
was worth in 1778, upon an ayerage of fiye years, £296, or thereabouts, yeariy.—
Note, by Mr. Hmgh Speedy im the NoHUa.

* Aldingham Hall, the Manor-house, and residence of the Le Flemings, ia now
gone I but its site is indicated by the plot of ground near CSaU Park, called the Moat.

' Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £45. Begisters begin in 1788.

Leeoe is a smaU Township containing a few farm houses; and here is the little
Ohapel of Dendron, situated in one of the most fertile parts of Low Fumess, where
the eminences are gently undulating mounts, and the yaUeys winding and narrow,
with umbrageous banks. In 1650 the Parliamentary Oomraissioners stated that
M Dendarum Chapel was builded 7 years since, by Mr. Diooonson, Citisen of London,
deceased, bom within a mile of the place where the Ohapel is erected, builded, and
finished." It was worth about £16 a year, arising from the interest of £200, intended
by the said Benefiuitor to be giyen towards the maintenance of a Minister. The
Inhabitants were three and a half miles fr^m the Parish Cburch, and numbering
■jxfy-nine ftmilies, desired to be made Parochial. — ParL Inq. Lamb. Libr. The
Chapel was rebuilt at 1^ expense of Bobert Ghreen of London Bsq. and consecrated
by Bishop Markham on the 2d of August 1767. — Note 2y Mr. B^igh Speed. This
sacred office has long been appropriated to its original use. The Beotor of Alding-
ham nominates the Ocurate.

9tmtts of ^^ttrtieM wU Cavtmel* 497

This Chapel is now used only for a School.

3 ni.[]le8] from Aldingham.

Gleaston Castle.^ l^xIL

lril*[ett] IBicftnwotl left 20(y for a person to read Diidne #c(aoL
Service, and teach School here. By his Will he appoints

y^ y* Master shall be a Single Man, and be chosen by y« Inhab.

[itants] of Dendron, Leece, and Gleaston, w*^ y consent of y

Beet' of Aldingham. 'Tis free to those towns.
V.[ide] Nom.pnation] an. [no] 1691, and 1700. Pap. Reg.

%tXt is 20^ Poor Stock, [the] Int.[ere8t of which is] yearly C^xdtM.
paid by the Sidesmen and Overseers of y^ Poor.

%9iZtiaSVLf^ about 100^ p. [er] an. [num,] of w«»» 80^ *♦

is paid by [the] Lessee of [the] Improp.[riator;] the syn.... o.*i. 4
rest arises from East.[er] Dues and Surp.[lice] Fees, freedbr Lem.
w«** y« Curate is permitted to have. Pona. 5. 3. 4

Improp. [nator, the] Bp. of Chester. [The] Curate at present ^^ftoinCMj-
[is] named by his Lessee. UlSl"*^'-^'

Fun.

' At Glowton are the remaiiiB of a dilapidated Castle. The area is a square, and pap 8

the ruins consiBt of two Towers, nearly perfect, on the West side, and traces of

towers on the East The north wall, clothed in iTy, contains a pointed door-way of

red sand stone. The staircase within is perfect. In the reign of Henry Till.

Leland says, "There is a Buine and Wanlles of a Oastle in Lancastreshire cawled

Oleston Gastell, sometyme longynge to the Lorde Haryngtons, now to the Marquise

of Dorset. It stondethe a 2 miles from Garthemaile."

1 Dedicated to the B. Virgin Mary; Holy Trinity, [Ecton.] Value in 1884, £113.
Begisters b^gin in 1569.

The etymology of this place is British, and derived from Tceri^ a camp or fortifica-
tion, and mel^ a small mountain or fell, — combined, a fortress amongst the fells.
Gamden says the Britons settled here in the year 677 ; and Egfrid, King of North-
umbria, gave St. Cuthbert the land, and all the Britons in it. The Parish is not
named in Domuda^ Book,

The Manor of Cartmel was giren by Henry I. to William Mareschal, whose

VOL. 11.] 3 S

498 ^otftia etMcittmin.

This Church, with its Ghappells, was given to the Priory of
Eertmell by W. [illiam] Mareschall, the Founder, in y« Beign of
Rich.[ard] I. V.pde] Mon.[a8tic(m,'] 8up.[ra.] In the 10th EK-
zabeth. Dr. Richard Master^ had a Lease of the Tithes of Cartmell
from the Bishop of Chester.

descendant, William Marescbal the elder, Earl of Pembroke, gare it to hia Prioiy
of St. Maiy, which he foimded in the year 1188 ; and endowed it fiirther with the
Ohnroh of Bati&r , the Chapel of Balunadan, the Town and AdrowBon of Kinroa in
Ireland, and the Tithes of " the ancient Parish Church of Cartmel.*' Preparatory to
the Dissolution, the demesnes of the Priory were surreyed in the 28th Henry YHI. ;
and four years afterwards the Manor of Cartmel was annexed to the Duchy of Lan-
caster, in which it still remains Tested. The fee hrmer is the Earl of Burlington, in
whose fiimily the priyilege has continued since it was obtained in 1609, by George
Preston Esq.

The Church is supposed to be of the Saxon era ; and West describes the place as
having belonged to the Church before the Norman Conquest. The present structure
was probably erected as the Church of the Priory, by William Mareschal, Earl of
Pembroke, in the reign of Henry II. The Church is large and cruciform, with a
singular Steeple, composed of a square within a square. — Pennant's Second Towr ta
Scotlandy 1772. Dr. Whitaker expresses his belief that the Choir and Transepts are
of the first foundation ; but the North side of the Nave appears to be of equal, if
not greater antiquity. A general alteration of the Church took place in the time of
Edward III. ; and many of the decorated Windows, and some remnants of painted
glass, cannot be later than that period. In 1291 "Kertynel" was valued at £46.
ISs. 4d. It was bought by the Parishioners at the Dissolution, as their Parish
Church, although it had been such before the foundation of the Priory ; and is one
of the very few monastic edifices that escaped the general destruction, or as it was
once expressed, " remayned unplucked down." Eighty years afterwards it was greatly
dilapidated, and George Preston of Holker Esq. contracted with the Parishioners, in
consideration of forty marks, and as much old lead as could be spared, to re-edify the
building, and to supply a new roof. This timely renovation restored, though with
diminished splendour, the sacred pile ; and Dr. Whitaker regretted that *' in this fine
Church, after the lapse of two centuries, another Preston begins to be wanted." —
JHut, of WhaUeyy p. 557. At the present time the masonry parts of the interior of
the Church are being restored, and the fine lofty arches enorusted with white-wash for
centuries wUl be displayed in their original symmetry and architectural beaufy.

At the East end of the South Aisle, within a pazdose, is the Chaipd of the Pres-
tons and Lowthers of Holker Hall. It contains numerous monuments.

On the North side of the principal, or Lady's Choir, is a narrow Chapel, with its
groined roof entire, anciently called the ** Piper Choir." The Harrington monument
is of the decorated era, and the figure is in the armour of the reign of Edward IH.
On the South Ib the Town Choir, probably the Parish Church before the Dissolution.

IBeaners of xyunieiitf atiD €attmel« 499

An. [no] 1689, Mr. Hen.[ry] Bigland left to y« Churdi, lOO*.

[The] Parish [is] divided into [the] Townships of Alethwaite,
Waltcm, and Bronghtou, for w^ there are 8 Churchwardens, cho-
sen by [the] Parishioners, w^ consent of [the] Min.[i8ter.]

[The] Minister names y^ Curates to all y^ Chappells, w^ leave
of y^ Bp. who is Bectour and Improp.[riator.]

HoIker,3 ^j^^ Bigland.^ ftalU.

In 1650 Cartmel was returned as a Bectoiy, appropriate to the See of Chester, and
worth £350 per annum, leased by the late Bishop to Mr. Preston of Holker. The
Minister never had any maintenanoe at all, only what the Bishop's fiirmers would
allow, until of late, when there was £80 per annum reaenred by order of the Com-
mittee of Qoldsmith's Hall, upon Mr. Preston's oomposition. The Minister was Mr.
Philip Bennett MJl "allwaies fidthfull to the Parliament;** and it is to be charitably
hoped equally so to a higher Power, although he miserably forgot his canonical
obedience to Bishop Bridgeman, and his fidelity to the Church. — See Pari, Inq,
L&mb, lAbr,

The Yestry contains a small Library, giyen to the Parish by Thomas Preston of
Holker Esq. M.P. who died in 1678, aged seyenty-nine^ and who obtained the stipend
of £80 to be settled on the Incumbent, out of the Tithes of which he was the Lessee
of the Impropriator.

Three miles South of the town is a celebrated Umestone spring, called **The Holy
Well,*' much used for the gout and cutaneous eruptions.

' Biehard Master M.D. of All Souls* CoU^ge^ Oxford, was oonyerted from Popery
by Henry Bullinger, in the reign of Edward TI. and was an intimate friend and cor-
respondent of Bodolph Giialter. He took Orders, but declined a Tery lucrative
benefice frt>m want, as he alleged, of sufficient acquaintance with the Word of God.
In 1551 he mentions haying devoted himself for ten successive years, to the study of
Medicine, and vras then maintaining himself at Oxford by the practice of it, having
become from a bad Divine, a tolerably good Physician, — like the person mentioned
by Augustine, as having become from a bad Monk, a good Divine^ He was Physician
to Queen Elisabeth in 1559, and installed Prebendary of York on the 14th of March
1562. The reversion of the Lease of the Tithes of Cartmel was made to him by
Bishop Downham, in 1567. He was the direct ancestor of Lieut. Col. William
Chester Master of Knole Park in the county of Gloucester. — See Origimal Letters of
ike Emfflieh SeformerM, p. 858, and Zvrich Letters^ second series, Paseeb SocietT;
Burke*s Commtmert ofEngUgnd.

' Holker Hall stands in a Park ornamented with luxuriant timber. It was the
fHToperty of the Prestons in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and passed with Eiitherine^
daughter and heiress of Thomas Preston Esq. M.P. to her husband. Sir William Low-
ther of Marske Bart. M.P. about 1697, whose grandson, Sir WiUiam Lowthor, dying
s.p. devised his Estates to his cousin. Lord George A. Cavendish, who died in 1795,

500 iLotftia etMKittmiiL

^tfyonh ^^^ et( is a Free School endowed w^ 26^ P*[^] an. [nam J w^ a
^n Pub. [lie] library belonging to it. The Gate-House of y*
Dissolved Priory was Purchased [of Mr. Preston] by y Parish^
and converted into a School-house an. [no] 1624.

An. [no] 1680, the School Stock amounted to 190^, with ISl^-
10" of Yf^ a Close was purchased [of Thomas Preston Esq.] called
Middlefield, [near Cartmel Church;] 6^*6" -8^ was spent at Law;
and [the] remainder was put out on good Securityes.

An. [no] 1689, Mr. Henry Bigland, [by Will dated 9th Dec.
1689,] left 400^ for y« School, w*^» w<*, and some other publick
[moneys,] Clark's closes and Berwick's tenement were purchased,
an. [no] 1715 [1692?] ; 10^ was recovered for j* use of y« said
School; and Mrs. Jane Bigland left 40^, [the] Int.[erest of which
is] for an Usher.

[The] Master [is] nominated by 24 [persons,] representing the
Parish.
MmfBt}j$^ Here is another Publ.[ic] School, endowed with 9^ p*[er] an.
tt^nh [num,] erected by [the] Inhab. [itants] about an. [no] 1685.

An. [no] 1688, Mr. Geo. [orge] Bigland« left [by Will dated 18th
May,] his Enclosure called Bradall, and a Warehouse at Grange,
to y Master; and an. [no] 1689, Mr. Hen.[ry] Bigland left 50^.
An. [no] 1707, [a] Master [was] Licensed upon [the] Recom-

munarried ; and after the death of his brothers, the Estate derolyed on his nephew.
Lord G^rge A. H. OaTendish, brother of the fifth Duke of Devonshire. The Earl-
dom of Burlington was reriyed in his &Tonr in 1881; and dying in 1884^ he was snc-
ceeded by his grandson, William, the present Earl of Burlington, and owner of Holker.
Dr. Whitaker describes the house in his day as plain, habitable, and oommodious^
with all those comforts which greatness alone can feel, in flying from the incumbrances
of greatness. There is an engraying of it in Baines' Sittory of Lanetukire, The house
has been ahnost entirely re-edified by Webster of Kendal.

* Bigland Hall, a modem-built house, the seat of George Bigland Esq. stands near
the summit of a hill beautifully adorned with wood, and in the front is a fine tarn
abounding with wild fowl, but at the back the magnificent Windermere. This ftmily
is descended from Edward Bigland, (with whom the Pedigree begins,) living about the
time of Henry YIII. as deduced by Ralph Bigland Esq. Qarter, who was a collateral
member of the House. Baines giyes a yiew of the Mansion.

^ Mr. Qeorge Bigland of Bighmd, baptised the 30th of October 1647, and died
unmarried, in August 1685. His brother, Heniy Bigland, was a merchant at Ham-

•easms of S\xaitw$ Mb CartmeL 501

mendation of [the] Curate of Cartmell. V. [ide] Mem. [arandum]
B.lpokJ] Siibs.[criptian] B.{ook.']

(btn by Mrs. An.[ne] Preston^ 100^, [the] Int.[ere8t] for iS^axitUi.

putting out poor Apprentices in y« Parish j by S' W. Low-
ther, to [the] Poor, lOQi; Mr. Hen.[ry] Bigland, 50^; Mr. Bow.
Qand] Briggs^ 52^, to be distributed in Bread; Eliz.[abeth]
Brookbank^ 20^; one Kellett^ a certain summe^ w<^ is now 23^;
Joh[n] Brookbank^ 8ey.[eral] Legacyes^ but only 90^ recovered^
[the] Int.[erest to be] given yearly to the Poor of Walton; 65*,
w*'» w*'' was purchased Lowstone Acre; '29^, put out in parcells, to
4 persons.

To [the] Poorof Arside [Moreside?] 27^1S^*4fl, in the hands
of John Harrison; 8^^ in the hands of Tho.[mas] Barron. [Ben.
jamin Fletcher gave, by Will dated the 6th of June 1695, £200,
for [the] maintenance of four Schoolmasters and Readers, at the
four Chapels in Cartmel Parish.]

flttSr^Sl^l. jrSl.1.,1 Certif.[ied] (Sj^ap.^at.

».10».2d, viz. 6i.0«.2^, collected by a 2lugm«
Salary-Bill from y* possessours of Land within the Chappelry; Fam.abt 8o
2^.10", [the] Int.[erest] of 50^ given by Mr. Fletcher. Anc* i?i«L*M.p.
Sal.[ary] was about 1^ • 10»».

Given to [the] Chap, [el] by Mr. Shaw 10^, w«^ w*»» Fletcher's

bwgh, and died nnmarried, in 1689, aged ihirty-eight. Their nieoe Jane, daughter of
Thomaa Bigland Qent. the other benefiEuitor named in the text, waa bom on the 16th
of Deoember 1688, and died unmarried, in 1712.

> Dedicated to St. Anthony. Value in 1884. £67. Begisters at GartmeL
The aoenety in this neighbourhood is extremely luxuriant. It has been described
by a recent Tourist as full of beauty, — beauty of the most perfect kind, continually
altering in character. The sublime must be sought at the Northern end of Winder-
mere^ — at the Southern all is loyely, often abrupt, wild and soft by turns, and from
the road beyond and near Fell Foot, shifting its character erezy mile^ until at Storra
it minglA« the most imposing aspect with all the graces of pictorial beauty. The
Lake breaking here and there upon the yiew in different combinations, like the scenes

502 itotttfa €ii$MtMisL

money, is fiecured on Land. Mr. ShaVs money was left for
a Sermon once a year. Law.[rence] Harrison left 10^, [the] Int.
[erest] to [be paid to the] Curate for Admin.[iBtering] y* Sacr^
once a year.

Certif.[ied] an.[no] 1704, 12i.06».00d. P<ip. Reg.

[The] Reader and Master elected by [the] Inhab.[itant8j w^
approb.[ation] of [the] Min.[ister] of Cartmell, an. [no] 1700.
Pap, Beg.

An. [no] 1712, [a] Faculty [was] Granted to Bury in y« Chap-
pell and Chappel-Yard. [A] Eeg.[ister] to be kept, and [the]
names of y« buried to be transmitted to [the] Mother Church.
Beg.[i8ter] B.[ook,'] 4.
CofDttf. 1. Some parts of y^ Chappdry are nine miles firom [the] Par.[ish]
Chur.[ch;] none nearer j^ seven.

[There is] 1 Chap, [el] warden, chosen by [the] Curate and
pres.[ent] Warden.

An. [no] 1719, Augm.[ented] w^ 200^, by lot : laid out in land
an. [no] 1728, in y« Chappelry.

[There is] a Meeting-house about a mile distant from [the]
Chap, [el.]

of a beautiful yuion, until the plantations and woods next the water become more
dense, and our yiew was confined on that side of the road alone, though on the right,
hills, wood-coyered and steep, belonging to the skirts of Cartmel Fells, rose high oyer
our heads, fore-shortened from proximity. At times the trees whidh ooyered them
flung out their spreading branches to meet those on the Lake side of the road, and
we seemed passing through a forest remote in eyery sense from the scenery that
really existed around us. — Englamd in the Nineteenth Centwrif — LamcatMre^ p. 314.

The Chapel existed here early in the seyenteenth century, and probably long before.
In 1650 it was returned as being six and a half miles from the Parish Church. No
Salary but £40 per annum allowed by the Committee of Gh)ldsmiths' Hall, out of
Mr. Preston's composition. The Minister was ** Mr. John Brooke, an old malignant,
not reconciled." — Park Inq, Lamib, JAbr. It was afterwards recommended that the
district should be made a Parish with StayeLey annexed to it, and a permanent endow-
ment be granted ; but the remoyal of the stem and honest old Curate does not ap-
pear to haye been thought adyisable. — PaH, Jug. Lamb* lAibr. How discouraging
must hoye been his position! but vexatio dot imteUBctum^ that is epmt^ according to
Jeremiah Markland*s translation.

The Earl of Burlington is Patron.

•eamtrs of jMtxtMf$ ma Cwctrntl 503

ere is a School; Sal.[ary] to [the] Master^ SI-IOb-O^ P-[er] #4oaL
a]i.[niimj who is always j^ Reader of y« Chappell; same

w*^" that given to [the] Curate by Fletcher. 10^ more given by

Liaurence [HarrisonJ to the same use.
No School-house.

fbtn to [the] Poor lOQi, w«h, w*^ Fletcher's Stf, to [the] €^xitM.

Curate and Teacher; 20^ by [Laurence] Harrison, and 10^
by [Mr.] Shaw, "for a preaching Curate/' was laid out in Land,
now let for tf-lS'-OO^ p.[er] an.[num,] 1724.

lLeeitSeiie«e9.i Certif.[ied] m.t.

91 . 12" . OQd, viz. Int. [erest] of 5tf given Attgtn*
by Mr. Will.[iam] Pepper; [the] Lit. [erest] of 501 given by Mr. gj^*^ • JJ
Ben.[jamin] Fletcher; [the Interest of] 24^, [given] by Mr. Jam. ^^'^^ «
[es] Simpson, and other small sums by sev.[eral] persons; 1^
p.[er] an.[num] fipom Ro.[bert] Burrow, and 4^ p.[er] an.[num]
fipom Mar. [garet] Bond, out of y' Land.

In the 16th Charles I. Cartmel Fell paid a rent to the Lord of the Manor,
called ** Service Silyer/' and sereral fiurms in Oartmel were charged with a ''gresson"
or rent, called '* the knowinge/' being a money payment every second year and a half.

1 Dedicated to St John the Baptist. Yalne in 1884, £121. Begisters at Cartmel.

Elookborough is situated in Lower Holker, and is chiefly distinguished by the
noble HaU. It was anciently a Market Town, and had a Charter granted by Edward
I. in the sixth year of his reign. It is now a small Tillage^ and the Market has
merged into that of CartmeL

The Chapel existed in the sixteenth century, and in 1660 vras reported to be three
miles from the Parish Church, and without either an Endowment or a Minister.
The Chapelry comprised one hundred and twenty-eight fiunilies, who humbly prayed
the Legislature that it might be made a Parish, and a pious Minister settled there^
with a suitable maintenance. — Pari. Inq, toL ii. The interior accommodation of the
Chapel has been lately increased.

The Earl of Burlington is the Patron.

Northward up the Leven estuary, affluent in emerald yerdure^ dark with woods
rising orer woods, and studded here and there with rocky crags, the scenery is
equaUy attracftiye, presenting objects of interest, rouiid to wh«re the mountains border

504 fijotitUi etMrtmnb^

The Chap, [el] stands in a small Market Town^ betw.[een] 2
and 3 miles from [the] Par.[ish] Church.
CotDiuf. 8. Mookb. [orough J Cark, and Holker.

One Chap, [el] warden. One of y^ Churchw.[arden8] of Cart-
mell serves for this Chap, [el] too.

An. [no] 1704, Certif.[ied] 7* p.[er] an. [num.] Pap. Reff.

Augm.[ented] an. [no] 1724, w*^ 20tf: one lOW given by S'
Tho.[mas] Lowther; another 100^ by Mrs. Jenyns, daughter and
Exec.[utor] to Lady Moyer, out of money left for that use by
Lady Moyer.

No market nor Fair now kept here, an. [no] 1724.
»an. [Cark Hall.^]

C^Kritinr. W&M H^tn to the Poor 26>^ P*[ef] an.[num,] Lit.[erest] of money
oH in [the] hands of Oeo.[rge] Muckelt; [the] Int.[ere8t] of
48^ more, put out in parceUs, to 4 persons.

lEN»a«l,i Certif.[ied] 5i.8».0d, viz.
Ii.l0«.6d, anc* Sal.[ary] from [the]

the lakes of GoniBton and Windermere, forming a fine background, irbile more to the
Eastward, the opposite shore is diyersified with naked or wood-orowned capes, that
jut out boldlj, though not of great elevation, to where they terminate on the South
bj that beyond Flookborough. Here Holker Hall and its grounds form conspicuous
objects. — England in the Nineteenth Century — Lcmeaakire,

3 Cark Hall, a large house built in the reign of James L was the seat of the Cur-
wens in the sixteenth century, and was conyeyed by Margaret, daughter of Walter
Curwen, and heir of her brother Bobert Curwen, to William Bawlinson of Greenhead
Esq. who died in 1619, £&ther of Robert Bawlinson Esq. Vice-chancellor of Chester,
bom in 1610, and ob. in 1685. His grandson Christopher, son of Curwen Bawlin-
son, died on the 8th of January 1782-8, aged fifty-fiye, and was buried in St. Alban*s
Abbey Church. Dr. Bawlinson, the antiquary, son of Sir Thomas Bawlinson, was
descended from a younger son of this respectable ftunily. Cark is now the property
of Mr. Askew, and other representatiyes of the Bawlinsons.

1 Dedicated to St. FauL Value in 1884, £71. Begisters at CartmeL
Lindftle is situated in Upper Allithwaite, and is said by Baines to be an ancient
Parochial Chapelry. Castlehead in this Township is supposed to haye been a Boman

IBeanns of ^^ktrtiesw anH 0anrtmel 605

Inliab.[itaiit8;] 8l.l7»-6d, [the] Int.[ere8t] of 77^. 10« left by
8ev.[eral] persons.

Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1722, money belong, [ing] to tbis Chap,
[d,] 1 Itf, 50^ of w«^ was given by Mr. [Benjamin] Fletcher, [in
1695,] w*** w«^ a small Tenem* is purchased; 41^ is in y« hands of
J* Min. [ister ;] the rest in 3 small sums, put out to 3 persons.

3 m.[ile8] from [the] Par.[ish] Church; and contains only part CofDiuf.
of a TownsP.

One Chap, [el] warden.

(bni to y^' Poor bom in Lindale or Grarigg, by Miles Tay- C^arttv.
lour, [by Will dated 12th Dec. 1714,] in land and money,
about 12^ P-[6r] an. [num.]

a:arsi.S¥,i certif.[ied] 6i.3».6d. aunm-

dear from y® School and all Deduc-

reeidenoe. Imperial coins, ancient rings, fibulsB, beads, and fossils, have been found
here. At the foot of the rock a handsome house was built and the grounds laid out
with great taste, bj Mr. Wilkinson. In 1680 these were purchased bj Mr. Eobert
Wright of LiyerpooL

The date of the Chapel appears to be unknown ; but in 1650 it was reported to be
four miles from the Parish Church, and had "neither Minister nor maintenance,
though a phfcoe of great necessitye for both.'* The place contained at that time one
hundred and twenty £unilies, who humbly prayed that the State, as the Christittn
OoTemor, would send them a Minister, haying been taught by such men as Owen
and FiaTel, that Rulers, both Ecclesiastical and Ciyil, were " ordained of God," and
that all power was from Him, and not from the people. The Chapel was rebuilt in
1828, the Incorporated Church Building Society haying granted £125, by which one
hundred and fifteen free sittings were secured. There is a Parsonage-house.

The Eari of Burlington is the Patron.

' Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834, £108. Begisters at CartmeL
The chief ornament of Stayeley is Newby-bridge, a delightful hamlet embowered in
wood, with the beautiful broad stream of the Leyen, formed by the oyerflowing of
Windermere, passing through it. A more charming and luxuriant, but retired scene,
it would be difficult to find in any part of Lancashire. In 1650 the Chapel was said
to be fiye miles from the Parish Church ; and £50 a year was paid to the Minister by
order of the Committee of Plundered Ministers, out of the rent reseryed to the Bishop
of Chester from Mr. Preston. The Curate was Mr. Gbbriel Camelford, ** a godlye
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506

Itoittta tbmtxkiMU^

J^rfiaaL

tions; 2^*4^*9^ from y^ possessotura of Lands^ 4fi^9^ whereof not
paid for 30 y. [ears J and 3>-44 not paid for 2 yeurs past, (1717;)
4f^-10*, rent of an Estate given [by Mr. Thomas Barwiok, by Will
dated 2A Sept. 1669J to a Minister and Schoolmaster^ taxes and
other dues allowed out of it ; 3^ • 12*^ out of Lands^ part to a
Beader^ [and] part to a Schoolmaster; 8**6<^, [the] Int.[ere8t] of
8^- 10", due to [the] Chap.[el] and School. V.[ide] School.

5 m. [iles] from [the] Par. [ish] Church.

[It is] served by a Priest, Licensed to y* said Chap, [el.]

One Chap, [el] warden.

An. [no] 1719, Augm.[ented] w^ 200^, by lot; laid oat in land
in Yorksh.[ire,] called Petgil-holme.

Scl^OOl [is] taught here in y« Chap, [el J S^-IO" p.[er] an.
[num] being given to a Schoolmaster at this Chap, [el,] and
in default of a Master to y^ Reader; 4i^-10* p.[er] an. [num, the
rent of] a tenem*, to a Min.[ister] and Schoolmaster; 3^ • 12"
p.[er] an. [num,] out of Lands, part to a Min.[]8ter, and] part to
a Reader ; [the] Int. [erest] of 3M0" to [the] School and Chap-
pell. V.[ide] Chappell.

8i.l2»p.[er] an. [num;] certifped] an. [no] 1722, to be 4i.l0»
p.[er] an. [num,] and called 8 acres; [the] Int. [erest] of 5^, given
to buy Books for [the] poor children at y^ School.

€^MXitM.

(ben to [the] Poor of this Hamlet [the] Int. [erest] of 2»,
and of 10^, and [a] share of [the] Int. [erest] of 50^, and 25*,
given to the whole Parish. [The] Int. [erest] of 26* to [the]
Poor of y« whole Division of Staveley. [The] Int. [erest] of
881.10-, certif[ied] 1722.

and painfull man in bis calling ;" but his maintenance being uncertain the Inhabitants
humbly desired that the same might be settled by the State, or some competence
afforded. — Pari, Inq, Lamb, lAbr, The Chapel was repaired before the year 1677 ;
and the present structure was built in 1793. The Earl of Burlington is the Patron.

This humble Living was held for forty-nine years by the Ber. Mr. Law, a natrre of
Aakham in Westmoreland ; and here was bom in 1708, his learned and pious «oii,
Bdmund Law D.D. Bishop of Carlkk, fcth«r of the £rst Loni Slknborongh, and of

Btmtqi M JhmKUtt ndi CanrtmeL 507

via. 18^ . 6» . 8^ paid by [the] Inhab. F|^ ^

[itants,] but some of it [is] ill paid; l^ • 10« left by [the] 2 Peniiys, J^L m! p.
and paid every Good Fryday; 8^ p-[cEr] an.[niua] left by Capt.
[ain] Sands, for w^ y« Minister is obliged to teach School or allow
a Master half the profits.

the Bishops of Elphin and Bath and Wells. The Bkhop of Carlisle was educated at
Cartmel and Kendal Schools, and thence proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge,
B.A. in 1723, M.A. in 1727, being then Fellow of Christ's College. He was a rela-
tire and patron of the Ber. Joseph Bobertson MwA.. Yicar of Homcastle, a sdiolar
and critic of some eminence in the last ceotuiy, the kinsman of Bishop Gibson, and
of the Editor of this booh. — See Nichols* LUm^ary Anecdotes, yoL iil p. 601.

1 Dedicated to the Holj Trinity. Value in 1834, £84. Begisters begin in 1680:
missing from 1648 to 1676.

In the reign of Sdward I« the Abbot of Fumess, to whom the Bailiwick of Coulton
belonged, inclosed by Boyal Licence, sereral portions of land in Coulton. B j Inden-
ture dated January 28th 1509, each tenant was allotted his proportion of Common
by a Jury of the Monks of Fumess and the Tenantry of Coulton. On the Dissolu-
tion of Fumess, the Abbey possessions in Coulton were annexed to the Duchy of
Lancaster, and were held of the Crown by the payment of " bloomsmitby" or wood
rents. The latter was reserred in the year 1665 to the Queen, and the payment
charged by the tenants upon themsdyes. Bishop Gibson derived the name of Fumes
from Foumoffey owing to the numerous Fumaces which were in it, and he considered
the Bloomsmithy Bents to support his riew of the etymology. — Gibson's Ccimdem,
In 1618 the Bailiwick of Coulton, Nibthwaite, Hayerthwaite, Satterthwaite, Sawrey,
and Ghraithwaite, was granted, in fee farm, to William and George Whitmore of Lon-
don, the rent then being "bloomsmithy." This rent was granted, with the other
pririlegei of the Liberty of Fumess, by Charles 11. to the Duke of Albemarls,
fimn whom it has desoended to the Duke of Buodeueh. There are no Manerial rights

The Ohuroh is a small, unpretending stmoture^ on the summit of a bleak hiU. It
consiata of an embattled Tower, a Nare^ without Aisles, and a ChanoeL It is stated
In the Bedigree of the BawUnsons of Greenhead, that William Bawlinson Esq.
rebuilt **the Parochial Chapel of Coulton,'* upon the Common belonging to his
fiunily, before the year 1608 ; and being ironically styled "one of Henry the Eighth's
Yioarages," was probably built about the time of the Beformation. The Cl&apel,
bewerer, was not independent at this time of the Mother Church of Hawkshead,
whioh bad itself been ooastituted a Parish by Arohbishop Sandys, about the year
1684. It was styled Parochial in 1660, and erroneously stated to be nine mika (it

508 fUrtftto etfiMnmU^

This was formerly a mean nnconsecrated Chap, [el] under y*
Abbey of Fumes, till after y« Dissolution of that Abbey, it was
inlarged in building, and consecrated and made Farochiall by
Abp. Sands.

The ancient allowance to y® Min.[i8ter] was only 20 Nobles,
but y« Inhab. [itants] added 20 Nobles more Tol.[untarily;] and
Capt.[ain] Adam Sands left an Estate [at Cowriddingin Coulton,]
in Trust to certain Feoffees, for y« use of "a Preaching School-
master, who should ofBciate in the Parochial Chapel of Coulton,"
upon condition y^ y^ Inhab. [itants] continue to pay y^ second 20
Nobles, otherwise y^ Estate is to return to Capt.[ain] Sands'
Family. V.[ide] Lett.[er] from Mr. Tho.[mas] Chapman of
Booth-hall, in Coulton, who married the Niece and sole heir of
Capt.[ain] Sands. Pap. Reg.

The Inhab. [itants] having purchased y« sev.[eral] Tyths from
[the] Improp.[riator] have ever since named y« Curate, there
being no other Patron who claims y« Right.
Q^QtDtui, The Parish is divided into 4 parts, in each of w<^ there is a
Churchwarden who Collects y^' Min'" Salary from House to House,
in every Division. There are 3 or 4 little Hamlets. [The] first
part [is] called [the] Eastside of Coulton-beck ; 2, Westside of
Coulton-beck ; 3, Haverthwaite, Finsthwaite, and Busland; 4,
Niblethwaite, [Nibthwaite.]

[A] Minister [was] elected by [the] Inhab. [itants,] an. [no]
1694 and 1697. V.[ide] Pap. Reg.

being only five) from the Parish Church. The Inhabitants ''-were pleased to contri-
bute about £13. 6s. 8d. a jeer'* to Mr. Wallons, who then officiated; but they
lamented not having either a settled Minister or maintenance. — Pari, Inq. Lamb.
lAbr. Coulton did not become serered from Hawkshead until 1676^ and is one of the
few modem Parishes of the Diocese. Its pretensions are still in every respect rery
humble. '* It has never given name or residence to any &mily of ancient aoooimty nor
been distinguished by the birth of any considerable name ; but the quiet and retire-
ment of its vales are delightful. The scenery is fiir more diversified than that of Low
Fumees, and it has a varied and irregular surface of cheerful vallies, rocky but mode*
rate acclivities, with hanging woods everywhere clothing their sides, almost to their
summits." — Dr. WkUdker. The Inhabitant Landowners appoint the Curate^ and
contribute their proportionate shares towards his Income.

IBf asters ^t JPktrtief»» onB CattmeL 509

An. [no] 1724^ eleven of y^ Inhab.[itants] style ymselves Im-
propriatours and Patrons in an Instnunent under their hands and
seals. V. [ide] Pap. Reg.

[Coulton Hall,3 and Greenhead.^] KalU.

j^ Minister is obliged to teach School or to allow a School- t^ah
master half y« profits of an Estate left by Capt.[ain] Sands.
V.[ide] Chuech.

[The] Int.[erest] of 5ff left by Barth.[olomew] Pennington.
[The] Kom.[ination] of y* Master [is vested] in [the] Min.
[ister^ the] Trustees of y* said Legacy^ and the Sidesmen.

ibtn by Will, [iam] Penny Sen', and Will, [iam] Penny Jun'. CJwrttterf.

[of Penny Bridge?] 15» p. [er] an. [num J to be distrib. [uted]
on Good Pryday to [the] Poor. [The] Int. [erest] of 5^ by Christ'^
Chanmey, [in 1720.]

SN£2r%8S9lS2r/ a new Chappell fBLufPtt.
erected an. [no] 1724, at y« Charge of About loo Fun.

' Coulton Hall is named in the jear 1665 as exempt firom "bloomamithj" lent.
In the aerenteenth oentuzy it was the residence of Adam Sandjs Oeni, a branch from
the Parent House of Ghraythwaite. He died here in 1664, and is the Captain Sandys
named in the text.

' Greenhead, now a fiunm-honse, adjoining the Church, was held hj John Bswlinson
Gent, in the time of Henry Vll. and his last direct male descendant was Christopher,
son of Curwen Bawlinson Esq. M.P. for Lancaster in 1688. Christopher Bawlinson
was educated at Qneen's College, Oxford, and published the Saxon yersion of JBoethku
de CtnuolaHone I^kUowphia, attributed to King Alfred. He founded a Lecture on
the Saxon Language, was a man of varied and extensiye learning, and memorable as
being the last direct descendant of the Flantagenets. His mother was Elizabeth,
second daughter and coheiress of Nicholas Monk, Bishop of Hereford, brother of
George, Buke of Albemarle, son of Sir Thomas Monk of Fotheridge in the county
of Beron, grandson <^ Thomas Monk Esq. by Frances Flantagenet, daughter and
coheiress of Arthur Flantagenet, Viscount Lisle, son of Edward lY. This ''con-
siderable name" had escaped Whitaker's recollection.

> Dedicated to St. Feter. Value in 18H ^^* Begisters begin in 1726.

510 0jama entfcitmkb^

[the] Inhab.[itantsJ y ground for [the] Chap, [el] and Yard
being given by Mr. Taylour of Lending. [The] Chap, [el is] 56
Feet long and above 24 broad^ w^ a yard fenced out w^ a Stone
WaU.
^tu Sxmlet 4 m.[iles] from Coulton.

Augm.[ented] an. [no] 1724 w*^» 200^ given by Clement Taylour
and Bich.[ard] Robinson^ who, w^ consent of [the] Min.[iBterJ
nom. [inate] y^ Curate.

#4iaal. ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ School^ erected by [the] Inhab.[itants] at y same
2^u time w*^ y« Chap, [el,] in w<^ y« Curate of y« Chap, [el] is
obliged to teach Scholars at 12^ p*[cr] Q.[uarter.]

Finsthwaite, Busland, and Hayertbwaite, are three yillagee which extend oyer the
whole of the East part of the Parish of Coulton. In an Instrument dated the 8th of
April 1724, Mr. Thomas Taylor, Minister of Colton, James Penny, John MacheH,
William Chapman, Francis Chanmej, John Bobinson, Robert Scales, Thomaa Sootaon,
John Chamney, James Cowpland, William Pennington, and Henry Taylor, style them-
selyes Impropriators of the Bectory, and Patrons of the laying, " the same being one
of the Curacys called King Henry Ylir* Vicarages,** and thereby resign the Patron-
age of the Adyowson of Finsthwaite to Clement Taylor of Finsthwaite, and Biohard
Bobinson of Waterside, yeomen, on condition of their giying £200 to the Gk>yemor8
of Queen Anne*s Bounty, to be laid out for the perpetual augmentation of the Chapel
of Finsthwaite in the said Parish of Colton. — GkkstreU's M88, BegiHry^ Chetter,

The Chapel is Parochial, and a plain building. It has lately been enlai||ed« The
Inonmbent of Coulton and the Land-owners appoint the Curate.

A Chapel, dedicated to St. Paul, was built at Busland in 1745 ; and another, dedi-
cated to St. Anne, at Hayerthwaite, in 1826. The Minister of Coulton nominates
the Curates of these Chapels. The beautiful yillage of Newby Bridge, on the Southern
bank of Windermere, is situated in the latter hamlet.

' In 1729 James Dixon bequeathed a cottage, garden, and turbary, in case his ion
should die without issue, which eyent happened, for the use of the Master of the
Grammar School of Finsthwaite.

9tantts 9fS'igam%n 9vM CattnttL 5ii

9aL8r«N,i Certif.[ied] 19i.0©»-08d, viz. [a] Pens.pon] V.
from y« heirs of S' W. [illiam] Lowther, Fanners of m. t.

I y« Rectory, 17i-0©».08d; and Surp.pice] fees, 2K t t.ii. o

Patron, [the] Chancellor of the Dutchy, ???::: oiio: o

This Chorch was approp.[riated] to [the] Abbey of Fumes; not^S*E*Si.

and an. [no] 1228, [the] ArchbP ordained y* the Vicar should have ^X^a.

40« p. [er] an. [num.] JSTU^SJ.

In y* year 1428 [flie] Archd"^ of Richmond confirmed this SSSSLJV^^-

Church to y« Abbey with all Tyths, [personal, predial, and mixt, R»gXn,va.^'

1 Dedicated to St. Mary. Value in 1884, £113. Begisten begin in 1570.

The Manor of Dalton nerer appears to have passed firom the Grown, or from the
Lord Paramount holding under the Crown, till the Foimdation of Fumess Abbej :
and as Dalton seems to haye been the Norman capital of the Barony, the Church must
hare been erected, and the Parish laid out, imder the immediate influence, and by the
immediate bounty of the King, or of the Baron of Lancaster. The Abbot and Con-
Tent of Furaees in the 2Sd Henry TIL obtained a royal Grant to hold an annual FUr
at Dalton, on the ere, the day, and the morrow of St. Edward the Confessor, which
privilege was oonfirmed in the 29th of the same reign ; and at this time Dalton had
become the capital of Fumess, having deriyed its importance from its proximity to
the Abbey. At the Dissolution the Manor feU to the Crown, and the possessions,
consisting of the site and immediate grotmds of the Abbey, together with other
Estates, were purchased by John Preston of Preston Patridi and Under Lerens Hall
Esq. He made the Abbey his future residence, and his descendant, John Preston
Ssq. was created a Baronet on the Ist of April 1644 ; on the death of Sir Thomas
Preston, the last Baronet, s.p.m. his Estates in Fumess were granted, after much liti-
gation, to the heir of Christopher Preston of Holker, whose grandson Thomas, left a
danghter and heiress, who married Sir William Lowther Bart, who died in 1706,
being the ancestor of the Bight Hon. William, second Eari of Burlington, the present
Manerial owner.

The Church stands at the South-Eastem extremity of the town, on the margin of a
steep brow, oTC^Jooking the deep glen of Beckansgill, or the "Vale of Nightshade,**
where Mr. West persuaded himself that he had disooTered the vestigee of a Roman
encampment, probably the ancient castellum built by Agrioola. A Church doubtless
ooenpued this site before the erection of Fumess Abbey, and was the oommon Mother
Chmroh of Urswick, Ulyerston, and Hawkahead ; but the first mention made of the
Church is a donation of the Yicarage of Dalton by the Abbot and Conrent, sxL but
dsoided by Whitaker to hare been made between the years 1196 and 1200, as it was
confirmed by Honorius, Archdeacon ci Richmond, who held tbat office fcr two years

612 ^totttia €efitrfemte«

Fam. even those which the Vicars had^ or might daimj &c. saving to

y« Vicar y« Mansion House and the Churchyard, and the Tyth of
Bread and Ale in y^ Town of Dalton, [and the Candles to be
offered at the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, in the Church of
DaltonJ and 26 marks p.[er] an.[num] from j^ Convent, who
were to repair the Chancell and pay all Dues to [the] King, Abp.
«cc. MS. Eb.[pr.'] Reg.[i8ter] T.T. from [the] Reff.[ister] of
Bichm^. V.[ide] Orig.\i'Md'] Compo8,\it%oni] an.\fui\ 1423. Reg.
\i8ter] of Archd,[eacon] Bowet, f. 19.

An. [no] 1 £liz.[abeth, the] Queen presented in Bight of Her
Duchy of Lane. [aster.] Inst,[ituiion] B.lpok,'] 1, p. 51.

CofmuT, 16. [The] Parish [is] divided into 4 Quarters called Bierleys. 1,
Dalton Bierley; 2, Above-town-Bierley ; 8, Yarle-side-Bierley;
4, Hawcoat-Bierley ; for w^^ divisions there are 4 Church-wardens.

only. The Church was appropriated to the Ahbey by Walter de Gmj, Arohbiahop
of York, in May 1228, saying the rights of William the Yicar, (whatever they were,)
and securing forty marks per annum for future Yicars. — Megiittr of the Aibey qf
Ikimess in the Duch^ Office^ foL 256. This was a liberal aasignment, and oontinned
in force until the time of Henry YI. when a new ordination was made by Henxy
Bowet, Archdeacon of Bichmond, afterwards Archbishop of York, owing to the
misunderstandings and dissentions which existed between Bobert de Denton, Abbot
of Fumees, and Richard Spofforth, Perpetual Yicar of Dalton. Dated in the Gbftpter
House of Fumees, Oct. 10th 1423. — Begirt, penes Commiee. Jr. de Biekmond, NoioL
o. foL This stipend, once an ample proyisiou, and now a wretched pittance^ for an
Incumbent, still continues to be paid out of the Beotory. At the Dissolutions the
Adyowson waa annexed to the possessions of the Duchy of Lancaster, where it stall
remains. In 1660 the Parish was stated to be twelye miles in longitude^ and four
miles in latitude, and the whole the Impropriation of the heirs of Sir John Preston,
deceased, a Papist delinquent. The entire profits were receiyed by those who had the
benefit of his Estate by assignment of the Parliament. There was a little Yicarage-
house and a quarter of a rood of G-lebe, but no Tithes of Com or Gtraan. The Yicars
had receiyed, in times past, £17. 6s. 8d. firom the Beceiyer of thej)uchy Beyeaue;
but this had not been paid of seyen years, and Mr. Bidhard Tomlinson the Yicar
had then nothing except from the beneyolence of the people there abiding. — PatrL
Inq, Lamb, JJbr. In 1826 the North side of the Church was rebuilt, and in 1880
other additions were made which giye the Church a modem appearance. The early
Norman Arch of the North Door, rudely ornamented by figures and arched bands,
as well as the old castellated Tower, haye been yery properly preseryed. The Font
is curious, and contains on it the arms oi Furaess Abbey.

tttmtts of jnimeiui anB esxtmtl 518

Tower,^ and Manor Honse.^ KalU.

ere is a Free School endowed w^ & P-[er] an.[mimj J^cJauT.

Founded by Tho. [mas] Bolton,* Citizen of Lond. [on J who
gave 200^ for a Sal.[ary] to [the] Master, £20 towards bmlding
the School, and 20 a year towards repairing it. He is Nom.
[inated] by y« Vestrymen of y« Parish.

fbtn by John [Richard] Gaitskill 12i.l0» p.[er] an.[num, CSarttirt.

by Deed dated May 20th 1626, Lands at Newbiggen in the
county of Westmoreland,] one half for y^ maintenance of three
poor people [of the Parish of Dalton,] and the other for binding
out poor Children apprentices, or preferring poor Maids in Mar-
riage; and by Will dated 18th of April 1632, the west end of
his house at Bowbridge in Dalton, containing five rooms, and a SSotobriUse
moiety of a garden, with a moss room in Ulverston moss, for the w*"*?***^
habitation of three poor people, to be appointed by the Lord of
the Manor of Fumess, and his heirs, and the twenty-four men of
the Parish, Sir Thomas Preston, before 1674, gave £650 for
the use of the Poor of Dalton, which was expended in Land.
Gabriel Fell, in 1638, left lOs. a year to the Poor.

' Dalton Tower iras built in the fourteenth or fifteenth century, and is supposed to
occupy the site of a Boman Castellum. In more peaceful times the Abbots held their
Courts in this building, which was also used as a prison ; and the Lord of the Manor
still holds his Courts Leet and Baron in it.

' The Manor, or the Abbey, became the residence of John Preston Esq. before 1569,
in which year he was Sheriff of Lancashire, and continued the chief seat of his des-
cendants for several generations. It now belongs to their representatiye, the Earl of
Burlington.

* Thomas Boulton, by a Codicil dated 14th Not. 1622, ordered that this School
should be built ''after the manner, forme, and fashion of the Chappel or Schoole
House lately built by Giles Brownerigge Gent, in the towne of Irelath in the parish
of Dalton," and he appointed GKles Brownerigge a Trustee. — Lane, MSS,

VOL. II.] 8 U

514

llotfita etntxittmis^

Fam, abt... 96
P%p 00

iL0LSbi9W^ al's Ramstead/ Certif.
[ied] 8^* 3" -44, which has been paid
by [the] Iuhab.[itants] of y* Chappebry, time out of mind, accord.
[ing] to y* Bates of their tenements.^

[The] Curate [is] Nom.[inated] by [the] Yicar of Dalton and
[the] Inhab. [itants] of [the] Chappeby, an. [no] 1720. Pap.Reff.
CotDiuf. 2. Bamside and Bosecourt. [There are] but 3 houses in y^ latter,
but good Estates belong to them.

Certif. [ied] an. [no] 1722, 9^ . 6« . 8^, paid by [the] Inhab.
[itants.]
No Wardens.

4m.[iles] from [the] Far.[ish] Church; [and] 8 m.[ile8] from
Aldingham.
Ac^al. No School, only [the] Curate teaches some children freely.

> Dedicated to St. Michael. Value in 1834, ^100. Begisten at Dalton.

The Township of Yarleside contains the ruins of the Abbey and the Tillage and
Chapel of Bampside, and the hamlets of Newton, Stank, and Bosecoat. In the year
1409 Bossel, or Rose, was held by Yane of Amunderlaw, in two parcels, for each of
which he paid a rent of 6id. to the Abbot of Fumess. The Chi^l waa erected "about
the close of the seyenteenth century, and was for some time used as a School" —
Baines' Hiti, of Lanccuhire^ toI. iy. p. 660.

In 1650 Bamside Chapel was returned as being situate fly^ miles from the Parish
Church, haying no maintenance ndr Minister ; and the Inhabitants humbly prayed to
haye a Parish. — ParU Inq. Lamb, Libr,

In 1716 Mr. John Staineton was the Curate of Bampside^ and reoeiyed the stipend
mentioned by Bishop Gkistrell. The Chapelry was said to oomprise four tiaaU
Townships. — Jfr. Joseph Lamberfs Letter to Biahop Q-a&treU,

In 1752 Bichard Mellier left by Will the interest of £30 for the benefit of **a
teaching Schoolmaster in Bampside Chapell," — a legacy neyer paid, and neyer heard
of until mentioned by a man on his death-bed, whose father was nephew to the Tes-
tator and succeeded to his property, which was wasted by his bankrupt son.

The Chapel, with a Tower, standing on an eminence, was rebuilt in 1840, in ike
late perpendicular style of architecture. The old Chapel seems to haye been rebuilt
in 1621, as this date appeared on a foundation stone ; but from a number of human
bones being found deposited in the ground-work of the building, and beneath the
foundation, an earlier Chapel had probably existed.

Patron — the Vicar of Dalton.

' It was contended that these rates of the tenements belonged to the Schoolmaster,

HB^aners ofJMtntM anH CartmeL 515

Sll»9^»lldS2r%,' Certif.[ied] S^
p.[er] an.[numj paid by [the] Inhab.
[itants] out of their Lands.

2 m. [ilea] from [the] Par.[iBh] Chratjh, and about 2 m.[ile8]
firom [the] Vicaridge of y« same.

[It is] served by a resident Curate^ who is chosen by [the]
Inhab. [itants] to be [the] Curate and Schoohnaster.

fte is a Free School taught by y« Curate. V. [ide] Certif. J^cfiaoL
[icate] an. [no] 1691. Pap. Reg.
The School was built [in 1612,] by Giles Brownrigge« of St.
Clement Danes Lond [on J who settled by Indenture [dated 15th

and not to the Minister ; bnt tbe contrary was decided in the Consistory Court of
Bichmond, in 1819, when Bishop Ghutrell's NotUia was produced in eridenoe, and
oonndered to befinaL

' Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834^ £68. Registers at the Mother Church.

Kirkby Ireleth, a Chapel in the Parish of Dalton, is to be distinguished from a
separate Parish and Yicarage of the same name in this Deanery. Dr. Whitaker con-
founds the two. Kirkby Ireleth, Lindale, and Marton, all in the Parish of Dalton,
within the Manor of Plain Fumess, were held in 1821 by the Most Noble Elizabeth,
Duchess Dowager of Buccleuch and Queensbury, as Lady of the Manor of Plain Fur-
ness, when an Act of Parliament was obtained to enclose the Commons. His Grace
the Duke of Buccleuch is the present owner. The richest and most productive Iron
Mines in Fumess are situated at this place, and the Mines of Whiterigg, described by
West as the Peru of Fumess, are still worked, and yield yaluable ore.

In 1660 Ireleth Chapel is named as " not far from the Parish Church, but neare
enongh thereto, and was only built for a School, and some, for their particular ease^
would hare the same made a Chapel.*' [Chapelry P] — Pari, Inq. Lamb, lAhr, In
1098, Bishop Stratford appointed the Be?. Mr. Armstrong King's Preacher for
the County, and required him to preach at Kirby Ireleth, Satterthwaite, Conistone,
Blawith, Lowick, and Woodland Chapels ; and he wrote to Mr. Shaw, the Beotor of
Warrington, Oct. 27th 1698, that "the Exercise should be duly performed." His
Salary was £60 a year.—- See Warrinfftonf p. 283. In 1716, Norember 12th, Mr. John
Stephenson was the Curate and Schoolmaster ; but his Salary as Curate never ex«
ceeded £3 a year, which the Inhabitants had charged upon their iSurms. — Mr, Jowph
Laniberfs Letter to Bishop Oastrell, eodem anno.

The Yicar and Inhabitants of Dalton nominate the Curate.

' The School, which was built by Mr. Brownrigge, was for some time previous to

1

516 fijotitla etntxivmU^

Augast] an. [no] 1624^ a parcell of Ground^ enclosed^ called Jick-
etsfield, [Fitcliett's FieldJ containing in length 42^ yards^ [and
in breadth 80 yards,] in St. Clement^s Par.[i8h, London,] val.[ue]
13^ p.[er] an.[num,] during j« remainder of y« term of 300 years,
[from the 24th of June 1579.]

[The] Master to be elected by [the] heirs of y« said Brown-
rigge and [the King's] tenants of Kirby IreUth, who shall present
two [persons] to [the] Rect. [or] of Aldingham and [the] Vicars
of Dalton, Urswick, Kirkby [Ireleth,] and Penington ; and they
[to] take [or choose] one of y™, and to displace him upon suffi-
cient cause.

The Tenants of Kirby, upon [the] erection of y« School, Cove-
nanted with y« s^ Brownrigg to give 2 parcells of Ground to y« s*
School, as also keeping for a [Nag or] Horse, and 2 [Kine or]
Cows, and a quantity of Turfs, [from Angerton Moss,] all amount-
ing to 21-1 7". 00^. [The] Deed bears Date [25th Sept.] an. [no]
1612. V.[ide] Deeds.

Here is a dwelling House for y« Master, built lately by one of
y« Masters, v^\ w*^ a Garden, was let for 12*; but y« present Mas-
ter lives in it. 1722.

ai-NS¥,* AN Island. Certif.ped]
91 . 145 . 00^, payable Quarterly by [the]

the year 1637, used as a Chapel. About that period, it appears to hare been inter-
dicted by Dr. Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, because, as a Chapel, it was neither
decent nor '.large enough for the Inhabitants ; and also for want of a sufficient
stipend for the Minister. In 1637, the Interdict was taken off, the Inhabitants
haying undertaken to pay, by Christopher Brownrigge, £10 yearly, towards the
maintenance of the Minister ; and it was ordered by the Bishop that the Inhabitants
should be at liberty to pull down the upper floor, and to enlarge the said ChapeL It
has been used ever since for Divine Worship ; and a small room near it has been con-
Terted into a School. It stands on a beautiful eminence in the Tillage of Ireleth,
overlooking the Duddon.

> Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Value in 1834, £94. Begisters at the
Mother Church.

IBeamts otS^miMn anB CartmeL 517

Inhab.ptantsJ time out of mind^ by 13^^ each Tenement^ the
Island contaming 2 small TownsP".

5 miles firom [the] Par[ish] Church.

[Peel Castle.3] Kan.

nWKWtSkfUmn^,^ certif.[ied] 42i.00>.00d, viz. 20^ ».

p.[er] an.[numj paid by [the] Improp.[riator; and] ^•^•
22^. rent of Glebe and Houses. Pap. .'.'.'.'." oo

Patron, [the] Chancellor of the Dutchy.
The Curate is styled in y^ Grant, Stipendiary Minister, and
Curate of y« Rectory, Par.[i8h] Church or Chap, [el] of Hauks-
head, and y® allowance of 20^ p. [er] an. [num] is there mentioned.

This Isliind contains seTeral small hamlets. It is nearly ten miles in length, and
yaries from a qnarter of a nule to a mile in breadth, being about five miles from Dal-
ton. By the Saxons it was called Waghany, and written, by mistake, Mouffunai in
the Domesday Survey. It signifies a " walled island," or '* a wall in the water,"
being insular only dming high water.

The Chapel was built before the year 1677. In 1650 it is called Wana Chapel, in
the Island of Wana, seven miles in longitude, in which Chapelry are resident about
sixty £Euniliee, seven miles from the Parish Church. It is surrounded by the flowing
sea twice in every twenty-four hours. The Inhabitants pay 6s. 6d. a year as a contri-
bution to a Beader, and pray to become Parochial, and to have a settled maintenance
for a Minister. — Pari. Inq. A few years ago, the Chapel was modernized and a
Steeple added. The "oldest inhabitant," now aged ninety-three years, recollects when
the Chapel Bell was first erected.

' Peel Castle, or the Pile of the Fouldrey, adjoins this Island. It was built by the
Abbot of Fumess in the Ist Edward III. to guard the entrance to the harbour, and
to be a place of retreat and safety for the Monks during the frequent irruptions
of the Scots. In the year 1658 it is described as an old decayed Castle of the Duchy
of Lancaster, in Fumess Fells, where one Thomas Prestone, a "Papyste Atheiste,"
is Deputy Steward.

I Dedicated to St. Michael. Value in 18d4, £110. Begisters begin in 1568.

The ManoY of Hawkshead has been an appendage of the Liberty of Fumess since
the foundation of Fumess Abbey, and at the Dissolution became vested in the Crown,
in right of the Duchy of Lancaster, and has shared the fortunes of the great Lordship
of Fumess. A Court Baron is now held by the Duke of Buocleuch. The town

518 fij9titi& €t%ttktmin.

V.pde] Grant under y* Dutchy Seal 14 Jaiii.[es] 1, Reg.\ister']
B.[ook^ 2, p. 341^ where there is this Entry also to be foand^ —
'^ I have upon perusall of this his Majy^* Grant permitted
Mr. Mason to Serve y« Cure above mentioned. Jho.
Cestriens/^

This Church belonged to the Abbey of Fumes^ and so did
Hawkshead Hall.

Given to [the] Min.[ister] an. [no] 1626, byJIen.[ry] Banister,
20tf; and an. [no] 1646, by Mar.[garet] Hindiey, 2001; with 3601
of ir^^ was bought a tenem^ called y® 3 Blackbirds in Fryday
Street, Lond.[on, the] Rent of yt^ was paid till y« house was
burnt in y« Great Fire; after w®** y« Ground was let to build upon,
for Vf^^ ground Rent is now paid, but it is not known vt^ is y^
House, and y^ Building Lease is now near expiring, an. [no] 1722.

Mr. Dan.[iel] Rawlinson ordered 7^ p.[er] an.[num] to be set-
tled by his son S' Tho. [mas] Rawlinson, upon Lands, for y« Min.

stands in a warm sheltered ralley, and many of the houses are quaint piotoresque
structures, and fit subjects for an artist's pencil.

Hawkshead was originally a Chapel under Dalton, and is mentioned as early at the
year 1200, as an old foundation, and was then assigned by Honorius, Arobdeaoon of
Richmond, to St. Mary of Fumess. Soon afterwards Pope Honorius III. issued a
Commission to the Priors of St. Bees, Lancaster, and Cartmel, in which he states
that the Abbot and Monks had sufficiently prored that the Chapel of Hawkshead
ought to be free, and was separated from the Church of Dalton ; and that William,
Chaplain of Dalton, had renounced his appeal against the Abbot of Fumess, so that a
ehurch-yard might be consecrated for burial at Hawkshead, and the bodies of the dead
be no longer conveyed from Hawkshead to Dalton, a distance of more than twenty
miles. The Church of Ulyerstone, howeyer, had a claim upon the Chapel of Hawks-
head, although itself dependent upon Urswick, as Urswick was upon Dalton ; and
Bobert, Parson of UlTcrstone, demised to the Abbot of Fumess and to the Church
of Dalton aU the claim which he had to the Chapel of Hawkset. After all, it is
styled a Chapel in the great Ecclesiastical Surrey of 1635.

There are architectural remains which appear to indicate that the Church was
built soon after the Norman Conquest, and that its hardy race of herdsmen and
shepherds who first peopled Fumess Fells, and essarted its numerous thwaits, were
not so occupied in selfish pursuits as to forget that he who builda a Church ought to
build for posterity — even a remote posterity. There hare been additions, howerer,
made to the sacred fabric, and the round-headed lights of the windows appear to be
of the earlier time of Queen Blizabeth, whilst other alterations took place in 1683.

IPeanets of;9UvtitM atiO A^artmel 519

[ister] and Clark^ viz. 6^ p. [er] an. [num] to [the] Minister, for
reading Divine Service in y« Church every Monday morning ; and
1^ p.[er] an. [num] to y« Clark, for his Attendance at that time.
The Clark's share is fixed ; but y« Minister's depends loosely upon
a Mortgage. Certif.[ied] an.[no] 1722, by [the] Minister.

Colton bury their dead at this Church; but have contributed
nothing for 40 years past to its Repairs. Certif.[ied] an. [no]
1722.

Int. [erest] of 100^, left [in 1669,] every fifth year to ''a preach-
ing Min. [ister,]'' by Mr. [Daniel] Rawlinson. V.[ide] School —
Poor, to w^ it goes y« other four years.

The Parish is very extensive and populous, [and is] divided into CofDttf •
4 Quarters. 1, Claife ; 2, [Monk] Coniston, Skelwith, and Ame-
side; 3, Saterwaite, [Satterthwaite,] Dale-park, Graisdale, [Qrize-
dale, and] Graithwaite; 4, Hawkshead, Hawkshead-field and

In the time of Queen Elizabeth, Archbishop Sandys^ by an act of Metropolitical
power, constituted this a Parish Church ; and the Incumbent is generally styled the
Yicar, though no Yicarage was ever ordained, and the Living is considered to be a
Perpetual Curacy. In 1650 the Parliamentary Inquisitors report that " Hawkshead
hath neither Yicarage nor Parsonage, only some Tithes of Wool, Lamb, and other
Small Tithes, the yalue of which is unknown. Profits to the .Minister are nothing
worth, but only what the people please to contribute, save £20 per annum paid by
the Ber. Mr. Walker." The Minister at that time was Mr. William Kenyon. — Pari,
Inq, Lamb, JLibr,

The North Chapel of the Choir is the property and burial place of the ancient
&mily of Sandys of Graithwaite, and adjoining this Chapel is an Altar tomb to the
memory of William and Margaret Sandys, the parents of the Archbishop, and erected
by that learned Prelate in 1578.

Bishop Gastrell has not recorded that the Parsonage House and Glebe are called
'*Walker-Ghround, being the Gift of Dr. Walker to the Incumbent for the time being.*'
This bene&ctor was oertainly G^rge Walker B.D. bom in 1581, in this town, of
reUgioiis parents, educated at the Grammar School, afterwards of St. John's Col-
lege^ Cambridge, and Chaplain to Dr. Felton, Bishop of Ely. He is named by Fuller
as a /'learned," and by Wood as a "serere Puritan." He was one of the Assembly
of Diyines. In 1650 he was stated to be the Minister of John the ETangelist, in
Watling Street, London, and allowed Mr. Kenyon, the Minister of Hawkshead, £20 ;
but the Parish had not any assurance of its being continued, nor did they know
whether their Benefactor wotdd settle the same on their Church. — ParL Inq,
Lamib. Libr. He died in 1651. aged serenty, haying been forty years Incumbent of

520 Jlotitia CtMtitnnif^

Field-head; for w«*» there are four Churchw.[ardensJ chosen by
[the] Mm.[i8ter] and 24 [Inhabitants.]
Kan« Hawkshead.3

grammar W^ tt$ is a Gram, [mar] School' free to all y* come^ Founded an.
* ^^ [no] 1584, by Edm. [Edwin] Sands, Abp. of York, by vertue
of Lett.[ers] Pat.[ent] from Cl.[ueen] Eliz.[abeth, dated 10th of
April,] an. [no] R.[egni] 27, w«^ constitute y« Govemours of y«
School a Corporation. The Master was to have 20^ P-[ef] ^>^*
[num,] and y« Usher 8^«6».8<*. [The] Master to be chosen by
[the] Govemours, w*^ consent of y* Bishop of Chester. [The]
Usher to be chosen by [the] Master and Goyemours. V.[ide]
Statutes in the Reg.listery'] p. 26, [dated 1st April 1588, published
by the Archbishop.]

[10th Feb. 1588-9, Samuel Sandys, son of the Archbishop, in
performance of his father^s intention, conveyed Lands and Tene-
ments in Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Yorkshire, as an endow-
ment.]

the Church of St. John the Erangelist, London ; and though often solicited, would
nerer accept of an^ other preferment. He was a good linguist, a oonsiderahle
benefieustor to Sion College Libraiy, and advanced, or obtained during his life time^
more than £1000 towards the support of poor Clergymen iu Lancashire, fie pub-
lished several Sermons and some Controyersial tracts, *' being ready upon all occa-
sions," as Wood says, ** to encounter with any learned Catholic Priest." fie was the
friend and coadjutor of Dr. Daniel Featley.

'* Concerning Church Dues in this Parish, see an Agreement dated Oct. 81, 1694,
entered into between Boger Kirkby Esq. the Impropriator, and 24 of the said Parish^
and printed in T. Heame's AntigiiiHsM of GUutanbuty, p. 282." — Ducarel's Hep,
Lamb, Libr,

' fiawkshead Hall was partly a Manorial Mansion and partly a Monastic Cell,
where the Abbot occasionally resided, with one or more Monks, who performed
Divine Service in the Church, and attended to the Parochial duties. The Abbots
held their Manorial Coiurts over the Gateway, still remaining. The building is quad-
rangular, and pleasantly situated on the margin of a shaded brook.

' This School wUl always be memorable from at least two great men, of our time^
having received their early education in it — the one a man of learning, and the other
of genius. The first being Dr. Wordsworth, the late Master of Trinity Coll^ge^ Cam-
bridge ; and the other, William Wordsworth the Poet.

IPeaners i^f d^kumefus atdn eaxtmtt 621

An. [no] 1691, Revenue 84^ p.[er] an.[num,] out of w^ & was
paid to [the] Usher. Pap. Beg. V.[ide] nom. [ination J 1698. lb.

An. [no] 1720, Bents belong, [ing] to [the] School, amounted to
87i.l8».4d.

An. [no] 1722, to 891.

The School was rebuilt an. [no] 1675, by Mr. Dan. [id] Raw-
linson of Iiond.[on,] who left to y« Master [the] Int.[erest] of
liXfiy every fifth year, [by Indenture dated 21st June 1669.]

If [the] Master be not chosen w*^in 80 dayes, [the] Bp. of
Chester is to choose ; [and] w^in 80 dayes more, [the Dean and
Chapter of Chester,] according to Statutes, Dated 80 Eliz. [abeth,]
and printed in Abingdon's Antiquities of \the\ Church of Wor-
cester. [8^0. 1717.]

The Tenem^ belong, [ing] to [the] School, about Hawkshead,
are now (1722,) worth 20^ P*[er] an.[num; the] Houses and
Lands in, and about Wakefield, 17^ P*[cr] an.[num;] and Ground
Rents in Kendale, 2^ p.[er] an. [num.]

There is also a Public Library, bought by Mr. Dan.[iel] Raw- lObrsrs*
linson, for y« use of y« Master and Scholars, who left [the] Int.
[erest] of 100*, every fifth year, to [buy Books for the School, for
Stationery, and for a] Writing Master.

The Rev^ Mr. Tho.[mas] Sandys, of St. James' Westm*", has
lately [1717,] augmented the Library, and left [the] Int. [erest]
of 800*, after some Legacyes paid, for y® maintenance of Poor
Scholars, [educated in Hawkshead School.] Principall not yet
paid in by his Execuf, Mr. Grisedale of St. Martin's, an. [no]
1722. [The Trustees were Miles Sandys Esq. Samuel Sandys,
and their heirs, the Yicar of Hawkshead, and the Schoolmaster
for the time being. He also gave £200 to Queen's CoUege,
Oxford.]

(bra by George Bigg, Parish Clerk, 126*; by Edw. [Leo- C^xrttM.

nard] Cowperthwaite, [in 1715,] 20^; by Jam.[es] Taylour,
801; Will.pam] Dennison, 10^; Hen.[ry] Sawrey Jun', 15^; Tho.
[mas] Saterthwaite, 5^; Hen.[ry] Sawrey Sen', 5^; Rich.[ard]

VOL. II.] 3 X

522 ^tttta CffitrtetiKto.

Atkinson^ 2* • 10» 5 Mrs. Cath. [erine] Harrison^ 2^ ; John Hunter,
1^; [the] Int.[ere8t of the whole to be paid] to [the] poor, yearly,
of y severall Townsi*, accord, [ing] to [the] Will of [the] B^e-
fact".

Given by Mr. Rawlinson, once in 6 years, [the] Int. [erest] of
100^ to [the] Poor of Graisdale and Saterthwaite^ another fifth year,
to pnt out Poor Boyes apprentices. [Miles Sawrey gave, in 1713,
£50 to the aged Poor. James Braithwaite, in 1694, gave £20 to
the impotent poor of Claife.]

llAI0:»mAISS.' This was for-
merly a Chapel, but not made use of
in y« memory of man. One Rob.[ert] Saterthwaite, w" a Boy,
heard his Grandf . [ather] say he had been sev.[eral] times at
Worship there. Certif.[ied] by [the] 3fm. [»/«•,] an,[no'] 1722.

A poor mean building, about 12 yards long, [but] not six w^in.
The walls [are] made use of for a Malt-kiln and Turf-room, by a
Quaker, in whose possession it now is. An. [no] 1722.
KxIU. Graythwaite High,* Graythwaite Low,^ and Graisdale*

* Graithwaite and Ghrizedale are two Tillages in the Township of Satterthwaite.
The road from Hawkshead to Graithwaite winds along the West bank of Esthwaite
Water, and afterwards, np hill and down dale, it is shrouded in coppice for nearlj
four miles, without a human habitation.

The Chapel was never rescued from its profane occupant, nor applied to the sacred
purposes for which it was founded. How it became disseized of its rights in the first
instance is not recorded, but the agents of the Great Bebellion had doubtless some
share in the fraud. A Chapel has, however, been since built and endowed at Brathaj
within this Parish.

' Graithwaite Hall, or Ghnuthwaite High, a plain, rough-cast house consisting of a
centre and two wings, is distinguished as the seat of the Sandys', of which family was
George Sandys, (son of the Archbishop,) the Poet, trayeller, and friend of Hooker,
and other benefiu^tors of Hawkshead. The family settled in Fumess about the time
of Henry TI. and is now represented by Miles Sandys Esq. an Officer of Dragoons.

' Ghraithwaite Low Hail was occupied by the Sawrey family in the time of Henry
YIII. and was conveyed in marriage by the daughter and heiress of John Sawrey, in
the latter part of the seventeenth century, to Thomas Rawlinson Esq. ancestor of the
Rawlinsons of Graithwaite.

•eatiet:^ ^tJ^muM atiB CartmeL 523

lumvauivmiaism,^ certif.[ied] 21

p.[er] an.[niimj paid by [the] Inhab.
[itants] out of their Estates^ [as] fixed by custom.

Left by Mr, Tho. [mas] Sandys of Kendale, to a Preaching Min.
[ister] here^ some Lauds called Lowsone-Park^ Tal.[ued at] a^ 4^
p.[er] au.[num;] but Certif.[ied] an.[uo] 1722^ that this was a
Legacy of Mr. Daii.[iel] Rawlinsou of Lond.[on^] who rebuilt
Hawkshead School.

An. [no] 1704, Nomination of a Curate by [the] Inhab. [itants J
signed by [the] Min. [ister] of Hawkshead. V.[ide] Pap, Beg,

Between 3 and 4 miles from [the] Par.[i8h] Church.

* Grizedale Hall, in the middle of the sixteenth century, was the seat of the Tom-
Unaons ; aad was purchased from the Irtons, by the Bev. Thomas Bowman M.A. and
k now the proper^ of his son, Thomas Bowman Esq.

> Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834, £71. Begisters begin in 1766. Burials
and Marriages at Hawkshead.

The Township of Satterthwaite extends from the South of Hawkshead to the bor-
ders of Ooulton Parish, being nearly six miles in length, and upwards of four in
breadth, and is filled with rocks, swelling sterile hills, heathy fells, and native woods.
The ''custom" was doubtless Tcry ancient, and proves that the Chapel was not a
modem foundation. It existed in the year 1577, and in 1660 was stated to be four
and a half miles fr^m the Parish Church, and without any endowment but what the
Inhabitants were pleased to give, which amounted to about £7 a year, and which was
then reoeived by Mr. Bobert Johnson, " a painfull man in his Ministiy." They de-
sired to be made ParochiaL — Pari. Inq. Lamb. Zdbr.

In 1705, the Curate wrote, "Our Chapel at Satterthwaite was rebuit about 80 years
ago, at the sole cost and charges of the Chapelry, only one Mr. D. Bawlinson, Vint-
ner, late of London, being a neighbour bom, gave £5 towards the rebuilding of it.
As for the endowment it is but £7 a year, £2 whereof is paid by the Inhabitants
within the Chapdry, the other £5 is the yearly rent of a little Herdwick called
Lowson Park, given by the Will of Mr. Thomas Sandys of Kirkby Kendal in West-
moreland. The nomination of a Curate belongeth to the Chapebry, as of late years
was sufficiently tried by the Chapelry, when one Mr. John Turner, who intruded by
a fidse nomination, was by a course of Law extmded, (my Lord Bp. of Chester
having recalled his license,) and I, at the importunity of the Chapeliy, succeeded."
Signed, *' Tour's in Christ Jesus, Edward Braithwaite." — NotiUa JParock. vol. v.
p. 1107. Lamb. Libr.

In a Letter dated the 3d of May 1721, addressed to Bishop Gastrell, then at Ox-

^I

fiMtttUi CnitrieiwJis.

IllltfiV IKSI,E2nV,> Certif.[ied] 19-10>-00d viz.

I Glebe and Church-yard, 2' ■ 10" ■ 00*; Tyth-hay and

il other Small Tyths, 21; East.[er] Dnes, 5'; given by

ife^ Mr. John Kirby, [by Will dated 27th Sept. 1680,] S"

] a year; Surp.[lice] Fees, 1'.

f Patron, the Crown.

Kiiby Irelits, lO". Pat.[ron, the Dean and] Chap.[ter] of York,
M8.L.

The Vicar and part of y Parish [are] subject to y* Pec.[n]iar]
Jurisdiction of [the] D.[ean] and Chap,[ter] of York.

[The] Inhab. [itants] of Bunnerdale and Seatfawaite, by an

ford, Mr. William Bordlc;, Minister of Hnvkshead, atjt, "Mr. Cngge, the Curate
of Satt«rthTute, has some Land belonging to hia Place which will not dear £5 pa
Bunnm, jei in ibe opinion of koowbg Persons might b« lold for £200, whicli, being
laid out in a bettei soil, oi bj the addition of the late Queen's Bonntj, might go new
to treble the present profits of hia Curacy. The Land is Tested in Tnutees, (and I,
as Minister of Hewkshead, am a Supervisor over the Trustees by the Will,) for the
sud Curate's Use, who ore Tery desirous to sell For bis Benefit, and 'tis said your Lp.
thiy, and the Incumbent, may make a good Title to a PurohMer." On the Bth of
June 1721, Mr. Bordley Bgsin writes ^ " The Z^uids celled Lowson PaA were giren
by the Will of Mr. Tbomu Saadyi, ind bftve not for aome yean put nlewvd £4
per annum ; and when Hr. Craggc wrote to your Lp. the right to Lowson Park
remained to be detHrmined upon s Bill in Equity preferred by one Qeo^ Bond, so
that he mentioned only £2 per annum as arising oat of tha Township of Sattertb-
waite." — Gsstrell's MSS. Stguiry, Cketter.

The Chapel is an ordinary building, and was enlarged in 1897. The Pew owners
at one time nominated the Curate, with the permission of the Minister of the Mother
Church, who is no* charged with the responsibility himself.

■ Dedicated to St. Cuthbert. Value b IBH £126. Registers begin in 1607.

Eirkby occurs in Dometdas, and baa a similar signifloation with Kirkham, the
Dano-SaTon terminal hge exactly corresponding with htaii. Mr. West obserres that
Ireleth was added to distinguish it from other places bearing the same luane; tat
when the name of Kirkby, which lignifies "a dwelling new » Chnroh," grew leas
diatinctiTe, the adjunct Ireleth was added, probably derired &om Airrs, the West,
and latk to Mscmblo, as being seated in Fumesa, the most Westeni part of the aneieDt
Northumbrian kingdom.

The Ikliunr was held by the Abbey of Fumese, and before the year 1199, 1st John,

•eatiern ^f jMxm%n atiO CartmeL 625

Award of Will.[iain,] B.[ishop] of Chester, are decreed to pay
8»-44, every three years, for bread and wine for y« Sacr*, instead
of 11" •4«*, said to be due for Bread-Silver. V.[ide] Award [in the]
7th Eliz.[abeth.]

By y^ same Awards [the] Inhab. [itants] of Broughton, Dnnner-
dale, and Seathwaite^ are decreed to pay half-charges of all manner
of reparations of [the] Mother Church there specified; but paving
or flagging not being named^ it was decreed afterw.[ards,] by ano-
ther Bp. about 1685, y^ they sh^ contribute at that time, but for
y« future sh<* be discharged. They were likewise by y* said first
Decree excused from contributing to y« Clerk of y« Par.[ish]
Church.

Soger de Kirkbj was styled its Lord. He was fitther of John de Kirkbj, a celebrated
Lawyer, Justice Itinerant in the 11th Henry III. Judge of the King's Bench in the
20th, Lord Keeper in the 56th Henry III. and in the 12th Edward I. a Baron of the
Exchequer. He is still better known to antiquaries as the author of the Inquest of
Yorkshire, which bears his name, and was taken in the yeaF 1284. From his brother
AlATATirlflr de Kirkby, descended a long succession of Manerial owners, the last of
whom was Colonel Boger Kirkby, liying in 1719, and who mortgaged the Manor to a
Banker, the Agent of Catherine, Duchess of Buckingham, who, on the Banker's
iniolrenoy, reoeiTed the Manor in part payment. This lady demised it to Constantino
Phipps, Baron Mulgraye, who sold it in 1771 to Lord John Carendiah, ancestor of
William, Earl of Burlington, now Lord of the Manor.

The present Church is supposed to haye been founded by Alexander de Kirkby,
who, in the 11th Henry m. confirmed it, with forty acres of Land, the ancient
Glebe, to the Abbey of Fumess. It has been presumed that a Church existed here
before the Norman Conquest ; but it is neither named in Domesday nor in the Valor
of Pope Nicholas. The present fabric is late perpendicular, plain, cased in roughcast,
and not older than the reign of Henry 17. The Door-way has, however, an Anglo-
Norman semi-circular arch. The Tower was rebuilt, and the Nave renovated, in
1826-7. The Windows contain some fine stained glass.

On the North side of the Church is the Kirkby Chapel, called « Kirkby Chantry"
in 1648, containing monuments to the memory of William Kirkby of Kirkby Esq.
who died on the 22d of February 1780 ; and of William Kirkby of Ashslack, who died
on the 28th of December 1747.

In 1660 the Parish was returned as being ten miles in longitude and two miles in
latitude, and the Vicarage in the Patronage of the Dean and Chapter of York. The
Bectory was fivmed of that Corporation by Anthony Laitus Esq. and estimated to
be worth £60 a year ; and out of it 18s. 4d. a year was paid to the Poor. There was
a Yicarage-house, two acres of Glebe, and Tithe, worth £12 per annum. " There has

526 ^totttta Ctmitnnin.

An. [no] 1671, [a] Vicar [was] Instituted by [the] B.[i8hop]
of Chester, upon [the] Present, [ation] of y Crown. Inat. [ittUion]
B.[pot,] 2, p. 142.

No other mention of this Church in [the] Iu8t.[itation] B^.
CofDtuT. Dunnerdale and Seathwaite, Broughton.
KalL Kirkby Hall.^

i^rl^ool. S^^ Me of Ireleth School, an. [no] 1693. V.[ide] Pap. Reg.

C^xritifir. B|M ognr ItltMlS, by Will dated 24th May 1681, gave £10;
fS&K Agnes Kirkby, £25 ; John Kirkby, by Will dated 1680,
£40; John Woodbum, in 1680, £5; William Chamney, in 1670,
£4 ; John Askew, £3. 6s. 6d. to the Poor. All these sums were
expended in Land in 1684.

been no Vicar or Minister since Mr. Askew died Yicar." — ParU Inq. Lamb, Idbr.
Mr. Thomas Askewe M.A. was instituted in 1606 ; and Torre giyes the institution of
the next Yicar in 1661, a period of fifiy-fiye years.

Bishop Gh»trell states that the Patronage of the Church is rested in the Grown,
which is a mistake, as it was conyejed by the Monks of Fumess to the Dean and
Chapter of York, as appears by the Great BoU of Archbishop Walter Qrey ; and
Torre giyes a close Catalogue of the Yicars, on the presentation of the Dean and
Chapter, from 1376 to 1680. There is one instance, however, of the Patronage
haying been exercised by the Crown in 1671, which may haye misled Bishop
GbstrelL

The Liying was one of the Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter before a lata Order
in Council for abolishing these inconyenient relics of Monasticism.

^ Kirkby Hall was formerly called Kirkby Cross, from an andent Cross which
stood before it, and which was partly demolished by order of Archbishop Sandys.
It is a low strong building of dark red stone^ with large rooms, panelled and orna-
mented with caryings in wood, and armorial bearings in cement. The Chapel has a
roof of cross beams of massy oak ; and on the plaster of the walls, the Lord's Prayer
and Ten Commandments, in black letter. Kirkby was the residence of Roger Kirkby
in the twelfth century, and continued in this knightly fsunily until the last cen-
tury. The house was re-edified by Boger Kirkby Esq. in 1639. — Lane. MSS. Petk
yol. xii.

9$amxs ot d^kumefiK atiO Cartmel 527

lien«»2reN,' Certif.[ied] 7^10>. (tttav^ipar.

11<*, viz. Glebe, about an Acre and m.t.
half, 1^*2"; other dues in Broughton and Duimerdale, 4/* 19* -6^;
in Seathwaite, 14^*6^; the Inhabitants who are Housekeepers
paying yearly at Easter, if married, 6^^, unmarried, 4^^; those
that keep a Flow, pay besides, 1^; a swarm of bees, 1^; [a] flock
of Greese, one Goose or 6^; a Sow, one pigg, or 1".6^; Hemp and
Hay, [a] fiEurthing a piece for ey.[ery] Estate; Surp.[lice] fees,
15"; vol.[untary] Contrib. [utions,] 15".

15" p.[er] an.[num, the] Int.[erest] of IS^ given by Leo.[nard]
Towers to ^'two eminent Divines,^^ for preaching two Sermons in
this Chap, [el] annually.

The Chappell and yard [were] consecrated for a burying-place
for y« Inhab. [itants] of Broughton, Seathwaite, Dunnerdale, and
Woodland, by a Commission from Joh.[n,] Bp. of Chester, to
Hen.[ry,] Bishop of Man, an. [no] 1547; the Inhab. [itants] of all
w*'* places, in [the] Dioc.[ese] of Chester, are allowed to repair to
Broughton Chap, [el] for hearing Divine Service and receiving y^
Sacraments. Extract out of [the] Ori. [ginaV] in \the] custody of
y* Cur ate J by [/Ac] Curate^ an.lm] 1724.

1 Dedumted to St. Mary Magdalene; Holy Trinity, (Dr. Whitaker.) Value in
1884, £106. Begisten begin in 1634.

Broughton in FamesB gare name to a family in Saxon timet which remained here
through the stormy period of the Norman Conquest, the struggle of the Barons, and
the contests of the Houses of York and Lancaster, until Lambert Simnel landed at
the Pile of Fooldrey in the year 1487, to prosecute his claim to the Grown of England.
The Duchess of Burgundy prerailed upon Sir Thomas Broughton to join the inra-
den 3 and the landing at Fumess was probably in consequence of the arrangement
between the Duchess and the Eiiight. After the defeat of the inraders at the Battle
of Stoke, Sir Thomas narrowly escaped with his life; and dying in sednsion at
Witherslack in Westmoreland in 1496, without issue, the family became extinct. His
Estates were confiscated, and giren by Henry VLL. to Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby,
and to the heirs male of his body, a reversion in fee still continuing in the Crown.
Another Ciyil War so fiur impaired the fortunes of the Knowsley fiuniJ^, that in 1667
(according to Dr. Whitaker,) Charles, the eighth Earl of Derby, then distressed by
sequestrations for his ikther's loyalty, notwithstanding his own adhesion to the Com-
monwealth, oonreyed the Manor of Broughton, in fee, to Edward Legh Esq. by whom

528 fijtama etfOtitnniA.

This licence was Granted by way of Dispensation^ by Tho.
[mas J Abp. of Cant, [erbury,] out of his Fac.[nlty] Office, and
Confirmed by y* King^ and was antecedent to [the] Bp. of Ches-
ter's Commission for Consecrating y^ Chappell. Y.[ide] Instru-
ments in New Reg,

This Chappelry is subject to [the] B.[ishop] of Chester.

[The] right of Nomination to Broughton [is vested] in Mr.
Sawrey, [the] Lord of y« Manour^ [but] formerly in [the] E. [arl]
of Derby, from H.[enry] 7*^'» time to an. [no] 1658, w» he sold
y« Manour to Mr. Lee, of whom Coll.[onel] Sawrey bought it.
V,[ide] Curate? s Accouniy an.\no] 1724.
QTofotuf. 8. Broughton, Dunnerdale, and Seathwaite, [are the] only Ham-
lets or Villages in y® Parish. The two first resort to this Chappell,
the other to Seathwaite.

There are 8 Chap, [el] wardens for y* 2 first Divisions ; two for
Broughton, chosen, one for [the] North [and] one for [the] South
part, accord. [ing] to [the] Canon; one for Dunnerdale, elected by
y® Sidesmen accord, [ing] to ancient custom, dividing y« TownsP
into 8 parts, viz. North, South, and Middle part.

10m.[iles] fit)m [the] Par.[ish] Church, [and] contiguous to
Cumberland. [The] Congreg.[ation is] very numerous, th6

it was sold to Boger Sawrey Esq. who, in 1688, settled it upon his onlj son Jeremiah

Sawrej Esq. in marriage with Susannah, daughter of Gilpm of Soaleby CSastie^

and died in 1706. The only issue of this marriage was Kichard Gilpin Sawrej Esq.
who dying s.p. after the year 1758, devised the same to his cousin, John Gilpin Esq.
who assumed the surname of Sawrey, and on the death of his son, John C. G. Sawrey
Esq. at Lisbon in 1799, the Estate passed to his nephew, the present owner, John
Sawrey Esq.

The Parochial Chapel is of an antiquity, the eyidence of which some improren in
later times, hare been at much pains to destroy, while they hare only succeeded in
proving the indissoluble firmness of ancient masonry. For they have, with great
pains and perseyerance, reduced the ancient Norman cylindrical columns to the slen-
der octogan shafts of Henry the Eighth's time, — which, nerertheless, by their won-
derful tenacity, sustain themselves and the incumbent arches above. This process is
sufficiently proved by short portions of the old shafts remaining above the bases.
The Tower is short and turreted. The East Window is perpendicular.

Although a Perpetual Curacy only, the Incumbent i» entitled to the small Tithes,
which, in 1650, were valued at £10 per annum, and which the County Committ<ee

fteamts otJ\mitnfi atiO CattmeL 529

[there are] many Dissenters w^Mn it. The Curate preaches everjr
Snnday.
Bronghton Tower .^ f^ax.

ne are 2 private Schools, and 45^ endowment, [the] Int. t^M.
[erest] of w*^ is equally divided between the two Masters.
This sum was Given by Leo.[nard] Towers of Holbeck, for teach-
ing 10 poor boys of this Parish.

Towers' WiU, dat.[ed] 1657, said to be of Mile End, Stepney
Parish.

[The] Int. [erest] of 2» given by Joh.[n] Middleton, [in 1691,
is] applyed to y* same use.

[The] Masters [are] nom.[inated] by [the] Min.[ister,] Tnis-
tees, and Sidesmen.

(betl by WiU. [iam] Dawson and Will, [iam] Towers, equally, €i«riXiti.
7\ [the] Int. [erest to be paid] to y« poorest of y« Inhab.
[itants.]

«aa:»a«aia:s,> [A] chap.[ei] gj^—g

subordinate to Broughton, Certif.ped] ^^*^ ^

an. [no] 1717, 8^12».6d, (and since, 8i.l»'.9d,) paid to the Header
by [the] Inhab. [itants] out of their Estates.

Mr. Penny, [the] h^ of y« Manour, names y« Curate and allows

morraMd hy allowing £40 a year to Mr. Thomas Bigbj M.A. the Offidatiiig Minuter,
oat of the sequestered rents of the Earl of Derby. — Pari, Inq, Lamb, Libr.

The Patron is John Sawrey Esq.

' Bronghton Tower was the ancient seat of the Bronghton family. The original
Tower remains entire, but, as a modem addition has been made to it on three sides,
the front only appears. It commands a fine yiew of the Dnddon, and the Comber'^
land mountains beyond it. It is the seat of John Sawrey Esq.

1 Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834, £60. Registers begin in 1684.

Bunnerdale and Seathwaite — the former name conjectured by Dr. Whitaker to be
deriTed from the place being peculiarly exposed to thunder-storms, and the latter
from being the nearest essart to the sea, constitute one Township and Manor. The
VOL. II.] 3 Y

580 jlotttia enMnmiii*

him 2^ p.[er] a]i.[niiinj paid out of y* Bents of y« Manour, to yr^
he is obliged. This charge upon y® Manour being (as is supposed)
settled by y« E.[aTl] Derby, by whom (as. Tradition sayes) y«
Chappell was built w^ he was Lord of y® Manour of Dunnerdale
cu Seathwaite. Curate of Braughton's Aaf an.\wi\ 1734.

[The] Chap, [el is] subordinate to Broughton.

Left by Bich. [ard] Walker 28* to pious uses^ w*'' w**^ y« Inhab.
[itants] built a dwelling-house for y« Curate.

This Chappelry sometimes owns [the] B.[ishop] of Chester's
Jurisdict. [ion] by proving Wills, &c. in the Court of Bichm.
[ond,] but [the] Vic.[ar] of Kirby Irelith alwayes insisted upon
it as w^^in his Peculiar, and commonly proves Wills, and Grants
Licences there; but y« Inhab. [itants] being Poor, the Jurisd.
[iction] is not thought worth disputing. V.[ide] Broughton.

This Chappelry about an. [no] 1675, (as 'tis reported by old
men,) first threw oflf y* Jurisdict. [ion] of Bichmond, w" G.

Manor at a very early period belonged to the Kirkbjs of Bronghton Tower ; and
passed firom the Stanleys to Bobert Hesketh before the year 1696, and appears shortly
afterwards to have been purchased by Mr. Fenny. In 1774 the Manor was held by
William Penny Esq. whose Trustees conTeyed it, by sale, to Kichard Towers of Dud-
don GhroTe Esq. whose devisees, the Miller family, are the present Manorial owners ;
and by whom a Court Baron is held. They also appoint the Curate.

In 1650 ''Seathett Chapell" is returned as being eight miles from the Parish
Church, and without any maintenance for a Beader but what the people pleased to
contribute. The Inhabitants humbly prayed that a competent maintenance might be
allowed by the State, and a godly Minister proyided. — Fwrl, Inq, Lamb, Libr.

The Chapel is a remarkably humble fiibrio of one story, with a small campanile,
but it has become memorable for the longerity of two of its Incumbents — one of
them, the Bey. Bobert Walker, a quiet but firm and yigilant Churchman, bom in this
Talley, and who officiated here as Curate and Schoolmaster for sixty-nine years, and
whose interesting Life by Wordsworth, with additions, eq[uaILy interesting, by the
Bev. Canon Parkinson B.D. are well known ; and the other, his no le^ remarkable
coadjutor and successor, the Bey. M. Tyson, who has been engaged here for forty
eight years as Minister and Schoolmaster, and who, in the calm eyening of a well-
Bpent life, still enjoys the confidence and respect of the Parishioners of his natiye
yalley — that loyely yalley so graphically depicted and deseryedly inunortalixed by
Wordsworth in his Notes to the Duddon Sonnets, It may be named here that Mr.
Walker's biographers haye omitted to record that this "wonderful" man directed his
Executors to pay £10, then in his hands, being the bequests of Thomaa Tj90ik and

9tMtts Of JtimeM atiO CattmeL 581

Wainhouse^ Curate of Brougbton^ was made Vicar of Kirby.^
Cur" Ac<f 1724.

10 in.[ile8] from [tbe] Par.[isb] Cburch^ in a mountainous CDofDtu(.i«
country. [Tbe] CbappeLry [is] very extensive.

[Tbe] Curate reads Prayers and a Homily every Sunday. [Tbe]
Curate of Brougbton adminis" [tbe] Sacr. [ament] tbrice a year bere.
One Cbap. [el] warden^ elected after y® custom of Dunnerdale.

IttAt^ teacbes Scbool^ but no endowment. J^^imiL

eft by Jobn Middleton [by Will dated 8tb June 1685J CfiAtitv.
yi.lO-.OQd, but [it is] lost.

OOftl^aUNTlP^i Certif.[ied] about 7^ Fam. ^bt... 20

^ ^ •* Diss. 00

p.[er] an.[numj v.[ide] Bbouohton;
an.[no] 1547, no Cbappell bere, but [tbe] Inbab.[itants] repaired
to Brougbton Cbappell.

It is situated in a mountainous country, about 2 or 8 m.[iles]
from [tbe] Par.[isb] Cburcb, 2 m.[iles] frt)m Brougbton, and 5
m [lies] from Ulverston.

George Gibson, of £5 each, to the use of the Chapel of Seathwaite, for buying books,
together with £1 due for interest ; and also to adyance so much more as wotdd make
the whole £80, and pay the same to Trustees, of which the Curate of Seathwaite
should always be one, to apply the interest for erer in purchasing pious books for
the use of the Chapel of Seathwaite, and especially for distribution amongst the Poor.
' The Ber. Robert Thompson was instituted to the Vicarage of Kirkby Ireleth in
the year 1676, on the death of Mr. John Parker, who had been presented in 1671, but
G. VTainhouse does not occur in Torre's Catalogue of the Incumbents of the Parish.

> Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834, £68. Registers at the Mother Church.

This place is a member of the Parish of Kirkby Ireleth, and the "mountainous
country** partaking yeiy sparingly either of grandeur or beauty, is, with the exception
of some low and fertile bottoms, a bleak and unsightly district, much resembling
some of the higher tracts of Cumberland, adjoining to the lakes, but shut out from
aU their beauties.

The Chapel was built before the year 1577. In 1650 it was stated to be four miles

^titU eMtrfnute.

jl SXmfyA^reN,' lOi p.[e]-] &n.[uTmi,] as j* SttuU
Tytba aad other Dues were let for 3 yeara tc^;ether;
but y PariBhicmera have lately Agreed, (vis. aD.[uo]
!l 1717,) to give yMin. [later] 10' p.[er] an.[miin] more,
_- liiS o''%'°8 y^selres by a Deed, to Aasesse tbeir Estatea proportioii-
tt£/2SfSS.'' '^^'y **"■ >^8ing that sniome; but this has not been well paid.
T^i*».r.iii jTjijjg-j p^j^igj, choose their Minister. V.[ide] Aelkcdbn."
p»^.^,.^(» Gamel de Penington gave this Church to the Priory of Conings*
heved. MS. Eb.[or.^ D.[ugdale's] Mon.[a»ticon,'] v.[ol.] 2, p.
4114,.
An.[no] 1583, Ci.[ueen] Elizabeth presented to y* Vicaridge of

from &« Pariah Church, and witbont snj endoiriDBnt. A 'RmAer vh pud bj tlw
preoorioiu bountj of tbe Inlubitanta, who detired that a mitable Hiuuter might b«
i^ipointed, nrith a mainteiuuice. — Pari. laq. Lamb. J4br. In 1689 the Chapd wu
Tflboilt ; and enlarged in 1822.
The lADdownen of Woodland nominate the Incumbent.

■ Dedicated to St. Michad. Talue in 18H £1^- Bt^iiten begin in 1623.
Thif is the Fennigetim of Dometd<^, with tiro oamoatea in tbe Baxon Manor at
HoTgm, held b; Oamel de Pennington, both befoiv and after the Conqneet, (Kimber'B
Baronetage, toI. ii. p. 402,) though not named in tbe Sorrej. From him dawnnded
Jo*celine de Pennington, Abbot of Futdhs; and alio Sir John de Pennington, the
friend of Henry VI. to vhom he afTorded ■ gecret asylnm at Afnnoaater, when puraued
bj hia enemiee. In retnm, the King presented Sir John with • onriouilj wrongbt glaai
cap, and a bleuing to the fiunil; so long m thsj «hoii!d piesore it vnbrokan, whioh
the ipirit of tbe timei imagined to entail good fortune, and called it the "Luck of
Unncaater." Tbe bmilj atill retain the glaia. — See Eob;'* naJtHone of LameaAire.
The grandaon of Sir John Pennington diatingui^ed hinuelf at the Battle of Flod-
den, and was anoe*tot of Sir William Pennington, created a Baronet on the i\tt of
June 1676, and of the fifth Baronet, who wu created a Pete of Irdand on the Slat
of October 17S8, b; the title of Baron Muncaatei of Jf onoaiter, being the anceator
of the preeent and third Lord MancaattT, the Hanwial owner of Fnmington, whici
it one of tbe emalleat Kanon in the county.

The Church waa beatowed by Oamel de Pennington on the Pnorj of Coniahead,
•hortly after the Conqneet ; but about tbe year 1200 a controTeny aroie between tbe
Prior and the ^bot of Furaeaa, the latter "'■■■"■"g the Churchea of Pennington and
ITlTenton. The deciiion wai bvonrable to the ConTont of Fnrneaa, which claimed
Pennington aa a Cbapel, which it probably had originally been, under Unwick ; and in

•eamts of ^^tameiift atiO Cattmel 588

Penington in right of her Dutchy of Lane. [aster.] In8t[iitdion]
B.[ook,'] 2, p. 8.

An. [no] 1623; [the] Chanc. [ellor] of [the] Dutchy presented.
lb. p. 78. p. 100; B.lishop] Br.[idff€man,'] Siibs.[cription] B,
{pok,'\ p. 22.

2 Churchw.[ardens;] one chosen by [the] Min.[ister; and] the
other by [the] Sidesmen.

There is no Clark w^ any Sal.[ary.]

Towns, [hip] 1. Penington. Cirtimrf.

This 20^; (above named as the Minister's Salary,) is now paid
dnly^ an. [no] 1724^ and 6».8^ P«[er] an.[nnm] out of [the] Mill;
15^, given by sev.[eral] persons, [the] Int.[erest of which to be
paid] to [the] Min.[ister.]

No Poor cess in y« Parish for 20 y[ears] past. Certif.[ied]
1724.

Penington Castle, a ruin.^ Ikf^

1280 the Archdeacon of Bichmond confirmed to this House nine marks per annum, to
be paid by the Canons of Conishead, who were to remain in peaceable and perpetoal
poesession of the Churches of Pennington and UlTerston. The Chorch of "Penig-
ton" waa yalned at £5. 6s. 8d. in 1291. At the Dissolution, the Adyowson fell to
the Crown and being annexed to the possessions of the Duchy of Lancaster, the
Patronage has been always exercised by the Crown in right of the Duchy. The
Parish haa a tradition that this right was anciently possessed by the Inhabitants, as
stated by Bishop Gkwtrell ; but it is one thing to possess a privilege, and another to
exercise it. The Duchy had probably appointed the nominee of the Parish, and
henoe, arose the assumed right to the Patronage ; although in confirmation of the
tradition, it might be stated that in 1650 the ParUamentaiy Inquisitors returned that
''Pennington is a Vicarage presentatiye by the Parishioners, who have purchased the
Beotory in Fee Farm." The Incumbent received £12 per annum, and no other
maintenance but what he had from the benevolence of the people. Mr. John Crooke
was then the Yicar ; and the Inhabitants humbly desired that a competent mainten*
anoe might be allowed and settled upon their said Church. — PaH, Inq, Lamb» lAJbr.

The Church was rebuilt in 1826, and Qeorge IV. contributed £50 to the building
fund.

' jMeeden is a Curacy, in the Deanery of Copeland in the county of Westmoreland,
of which the Bishop of Chester is the Appropriator ; and in 1714 a Curate was
licensed to Arleoden and JPMMM^fon. — Gaatrell's MS. NoiUia, p. 270, in the £e^
iryy Cketier*

' The Castle of Penington, the residence of the early Lords, is still pointed out on

5d4 fijotm» etfttrtnufA.

ClHtitM. MSI flien to [the] Chnrch aod Poor 5^, by y* Wills of sev. [eral]
HH persons. [The] Money [is] lent out upon Land, of w^ i G>
[is paid] to [the] Min. [later.]

ii

p- Bridiie-

J EVIRSffiCN.' Certif.[ied]28i.l8«.00i,ra.Vic.[M.
age] house and Grounds in Ulrerston, 9^; House and

'i '^^ i ments, I^th Rent, and other Small Does paid by [the]
"* Impropriator, 11'; [the] Int.[erest] of 131 given by Bev.[eral]
M.T. Tia. *perso»8f 18"; Snip. [lice] Fees from a few pereonsj (the rest being
«££!'. rec^ by [the] Impr. [opriator,) 1'.

Fim. Kt Jam.[e8] Fell reputed Patron.

i&."m.'q.* This Church, with its Chappells, [was] given to [the] Priory
"^^^^ of ConingBh.[eved,] by [the] Founder. V.[ide] Moti.l<uticm,}
sup. [ra.]

the verge of a precipitous hill, bat it appean to ia.ye been of ranill dimemioiu. It
was abandoDed for Unnosster aboat the time of Heniy IH.

) DedicatM to St. Kay. Value in 1B34, £149. Begisters begin in 1646.

In tbe Uanietdas Suntg, Tloreeton oooun tw a Mmor in the pouMuon of TnniI4
•nd Xnf, the son of Tnml^ witneMed the foundation Charter of St. Mtrft nior; at
Lanoaater. In the early part of tbe twelfth century the Manor was held bj Stephco,
Barl of Boulogne, afUmrda King of England, and was givm by him to the Ab-
be; of Fonen in the year 1127. In the 7th Richard I. the Abbot granted tbe
Manor to (Hlbert Pits Bcin&ed and HeWise his wife, heinas of the Laneuten,
Barons of KendaL Hie descendant, Soger de Lauoester, obtained in the 8th Bdwnd
I. a Charter for a Market at UlTerttoa ererj week on Thursday, and an annual Fair
on the ere, the day, and the morrow of the B. Tirgin's Natirity. In 1291 the Chnrch
of " Woheeton" was rained at £12. In tlie 20th Edward I. a moiety of the Manor
had passed to the Harringtons. The Lsneaster moiety reverted to the Abbey on the
death of their tepresentative, the celebrated Sir John de Couplsnd, and in the 81st
Henry VllL was snirendered to the King. The other moiety of Ulvereton, which
had deeeended from John de Harrington, in the Sth Henry T. to his heiie, came t«
Heniy, Duke of Suffolk, &ther of Lady Jane Orey, and was ftwMted by his attainder
in 1653. The whole Manor remained in the Grown until the year 1609, when a
tnoiety of it was sold, and in three years afterwards the other moiety waa also alie-
nated. After a variety of mesne de«>entB, it was conveyed in 1786, for £400, to the

9iamvs trf^tmM aiiQ CartmeL 535

From H.[eiiry] S^'* time tp an. [no] 1684, the whole profits of
this Church did not exceed 8^ p.[er] an.[nuin,] since w<* time by
8ev.[eral] gifts, the revenue is encreased to 28^ p*[er] an. [num.]
The Church-yard, Yal.[ue] 2^ P'[er] an.[num,] was purchased of
y* Improp. [riator.] Another purchase was made of 4A p.[er] an.
[num;] another of 8^ p.[er] an.[num; and] another of 8^ p-[er]
an. [num.] 200^ of y« money w*^ w^ these purchases were made
was given by Mr. John Ambrose^ of Lowick, [and] the rest by
[the] contrib. [utions] of [the] Parishioners; 8^p.[er] an.[num]
out of Small Tyths in Osmotherley, given by [the] Farm.[ers]
of Conishead; [and the] Int.[ere8t] of 10^ given by Will.[iam]

Duke of Montagu, and the Manerial priTilegea are now poeaessed by the Ducal House
of Bnocleoch.

The Chiiroh, aituated at the foot of a hill, a short distance from the town, was
appropriated to the Priory of Conishead by William de Lancaster, its founder.
UlTerston was originally part of the Parish of Dalton, as was also XTrswick, from
which TJlyenton was separated. This led to the claim of the Abbot of Fumess
ttientioned in the Note under Pennington. The Tithes of TJlyenton had been con-
firmed by the Archdeacon of Richmond, and others, to the Canons of Conishead, in
1206 ; and in 1280 they obtained the Adyowson, and would neyer permit an appro-
priation, or sufllar a Vicarage to be ordained, although the Parish is styled a Vicarage
by Bishop Oastrell, and **a Perpetual Curate" by Dr. Whitaker. In 1650 the Par-
liamentary Inquisitors stated that there was neither Parsonage nor Vicarage, the
whole being Impropriated to Mr. Fleming of Bydall, and to Mr. Ambrose of Lowick.
The issues to the Minister were said to be worth nothing except £8 per annum paid
by the Impropriators, who also allowed him Dues from the "Weddings, Burials,
Christenings, and Churchings, and the herbage of the Church-yard, in lieu of 40s.
per annuBL** His whole Salary being £10 a year, they prayed for a settled Minis-
ter and an Endowment for their Parish Church. — ParL Inq, The Arch of the
principal Doorway on the South side, appears to be a relic of the Norman Church,
and probably the Tower is nearly as ancient ; but the whole Church was renoyated
about the time of Henry VULl. and again in the year 1804. The Chantry at the
Bast end of the South Aisle, was dissolyed in 1648, and is now filled with handsome
monuments, and the Windows with armorial bearings, of the families of Dodding and
Braddyll of Conishead, who haye long been the Patrons of the Church. In 1786 Dr.
William Stratford, GkMtrell*s Secretary, gaye £200 as an augmentation to Ulyerston ;
and in 1741 the Trustees of Dr. William Stratford, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford,
further augmented the Liying. A new Church was built here in 1889.

* Mr. John Ambrose S.T.B. was Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Bector
of Q ra sm e r e , and Lord of the Manor of Lowick. He died on the 18th of August

586 #iitftia Cefttrfetusfe*

Penny. The whole proiSts, [amonot to] 28l-10".00^ p[er] an.
[num.] [For] Taxes and Repairs deduct 25^ P-[er] an. [num.]
Certif.lied] an.lfw] 1724 «y [the] Vic.[ar] and [the] Churchw.
[ardens.']

An. [no] 1696, Jo.[seph] Wood, [the] Improp.[riator,] recom-
mended 8 persons to the Bp. j^ he might take one of y'^ (as Vicar.)
V.[ide] Pap. Reg.

The pres^ Incumbent, Atkinson, is the first who has been Insti-
tuted to this Church, (an. [no] 1716,) as faire as I can find by
[the] Instit.\uiUm\ Books.

The Yicar administers y« Sacrament in y* Chappelk on several
Holidayes in y« year.

fjMmi. The Parish [is] divided into the TownsP of Ulverston, w**^ a
Hamlett belong, [ing] to it, and 4 Quarters, viz. Osmotherley,
Egton, Newland, and Mansrigge ; besides the 4 Chappelryes there
is a place called Plumptou in Newland Quarter.

There are 7 Churchw. [ardens] and 4 Chap, [el] wardens ; 2 for
[the] town of Ulverston, 1 for y« Hamlet, one for each Quarter,
[and] one for each Chap.[eh7.] They are chosen by Joint con-
sent of [the] Min.[ister] and [the] Inhabitants.

KAlIif. Penny-bridge,^ Swartmoor Hall,* and Plumpton Hall.^

ActjooL ^S^ ttt is a School erected by [the] Inhab.[itants,] and for [thej
^^ maintenance of a Master a certain parcell of Common, on y*
East side of y« Town was enclosed, worth 2^- 10" p.[er] an.[num,]

1684, aged seventj-eiglit, haying giyen £400 to his College, and bequeathed '£200 to
the Church of Ulyenton, £100 to its Poor, £200 to the Chapel of Lowiek, £40 to
the Poor of the same place, and £40 to the Public School at Qraflmere. He was
buried at Ulyerston, where his monument still remains. He was the fifth son of
John Ambrose Esq. and of his wife Dorothy, daughter of William Fleming of Bydall
Esq. and brother of Daniel Ambrose D.D. Bector of Methley in the county of York,
who married Maiy, daughter of Edmund Asheton of Methley Esq. son of the Bey.
Edward Asheton M.A. Bector of Middleton in the county of Lancaster, who was
the son of Arthur Asheton of Clegg Hall in the Parish of Bochdale. Isaac Ambrose^
Vicar of Gkirstang, the well known writer, was of the same &mily. — Lane. MS8. yoL
xii. Ped.
' At Egton-cum-Newland is Penny-bridge, the seat of the Penny family from the

9t9mts of i^tttneM wM CattmeL 587

and another parcel on y* West side, being [worth] 6" -8^ P*[g^]
an.[num.}

Given to j* same Use by Mr. Geo. [Thomas] Fell, 80 p. [er]
an.[niimj out of an Estate at Swarthmoor, towards maintaining
six Poor Children at School ; wages to [the] Master for every
other Child, !■ • 6^ p, [er] Q. [uarter.] The Curates of y« sev, [eral]
ChappeUs (who teach School) have only twelve pence p.[er]
Quarter.

Oun [in 1718J by Mr. Ilog.[er] Sawrey, Chamberlain of y« C|^xdlv«
City of York, 50^, [the] Int.[erest] to buy Bibles for poor

Children who can read. [The] Money is well secured on Land.

Thomas Fell gave 80s. a year for Clothing a poor boy on going

out apprentice, charged on Swarthmoor Estate.

time of Queen Elizabeth. A moiety of the Estate wae conreyed by Isabella^ daogbter
and ooheiress of James Penny, in maniage, to John, son and heir of James Machell
of Hollow Oak Esq. who pnrohased the other moiety of Mary, the elder coheiress,
who married Biohard Townley of Belfield HaU (near Bochdale) Esq. in London, on
May 9th 1764.

* Swartmoor HaU in the serenteenth oentnry was the residence of the &mily of
Fell, of which was Thomas Fell Esq. M.F. a Barrister of Gray's Inn, Yice-Chancellor
of the Dnchy of Lancaster, and one of the Judges who went the Circuit of West
Chester and North Wales. He married Margaret, daughter of John Askew Esq. and
both were greatly esteemed as persons of exemplary piety, and their biographer adds,
** of wisdom, moderation, and good understanding." Li the year 1652 the family
became acquainted with Gteorge Fox, a journeyman shoemaker, and the Judge and
his wife embracing the views of the Quakers, established a weekly meeting in Swart-
moor HalL In 1669 Gteorge succeeded to the wife and mansion of Judge Fell, and
died in 1691. His widow died at Swartmoor, on the 28d of February 1702. The
house in now much dilapidated, and occoupied by a fermer, but the study of Fox is
still shewn, and some of the rooms are spacious and handsome.

* Flumpton HaU was one of the forfeitures of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, in
1568-4^ and became the property of John Sawrey Qent. in 1657, in whose fiunily and
name it remained until the year 17 , when it was conveyed by Anne, daughter and
heiress of William Sawrey Esq. to her husband Bacon Morritt of York Esq. and
haying been held by the late accomplished and learned owner, J. B. Sawrey Morritt
of Bokeby Esq. is now the property of his kinsman.

VOL. II.] 3 z

588 lUntttta CeiOrfeitfite.

4jpBrtfflfa ^S^l^ 211815 2C3Rt* Certif.[ied] 4^, paid

tatBva^ip. i^^ by [the] Inhab.[itants,] some of w«^

Fam. abt! 46 being Foor^ y® Curate usually loses 8" p.[er] aii.[nuinj besides w^

DiM. Fam. IP..,. ,, -rk'*' i»_^T j

IS Lost by a Division of y^ Lands.

The Lihab.[itants] pretend to a Bight of electing y^ Curate.

The Chap, [el] is w*Mn y« Township of Ulverston, but [is] 5 m.
[iles] from [the] par,[ish] Church.

Served by an industrious and Learned Curate. 1717.

[There is a] place called Stanley-Honey w*^*in this Chappeliy.

[A] fifth part of this Village belongs to Torver; [another] fifth
part [is] called Subberthwaite.

One Warden, chosen by [the] Curate and pres* warden.

tt^oaiU M^ endowed School, only [the] Curate teaches in y* Chap.

^ Patron Saint unknown. Value in 18B4, £59. Segiaten begin in 1728.

Blawith consists of portions of the Manors of XJiyerston, Egton with Newlaad,
Torrer, and Oonishead, constituting a Township. The sterile tract ddled Snberth-
waite is included in the Chapelrj of Lowick.

The Chapel was founded before the year 1677. In 1650 it was said to be aeren
miles from the Parish Church, and without any settled endowment. The Inhabitants
allowed " of themselves" £5 per annum to John Qibeon their Reader, and desired to
be made Parochial, and to have an endowment for a Minister.

On the dd of October 1715, the Warden and Inhabitants of Blawith preeemted
their Petition to Bishop Gustrell, then at Oxford, stating that the number of all the
Inhabitants within their Chapelrj was forty-three, and that thirty-three of that num-
ber, some others sitting neuter, had elected "ayoungman whose name is William
Bichardson for our Beader and Schoolmaster, and we are well contented with him ;"
that neyertheless a few of the Inhabitants had elected Thomas Fell, who on that title
had been ordained Deacon at the Bishop of Carlisle's last Ordination, ''in the absence
of Bishop Gastrell,'* as Fell reported j and the Petitioners earnestly desired that his
Lordship would not grant him a Licence. Bichardson, however, was not of Canon-
ical age, haying only entered into his twenty-third year, but his Beading in the Cha-
pel being approved, and his teaching the Children satisfactory to their Parents, they
prayed that he might have a Licence to teach School until the Chester Ordination;
but if the Bish(^ disapproved of " the Curacy being supplied vrithout a man in Dea-
con's Orders, for so short a time, we will rather Hire one to supply our Curacy who
is in Orders^ till such time as he (Richardson) attain thereto, rather than the other

•falters of ;fbnteM atiD CottmeL 589

ttt to [the] Poor by [the] Rev. Mr. John Ambrose of ^j^xrits*
Lowick Hall^ 15^, [the] Int. [crest to be] given yearly.

©MflSffdW Certif.[ied] 8i.l9-.10d, ©jap.^ar.
viz. Sal.[ary] paid by [the] Inhab.
[itantsj li.l9».10d; ancient Stock, 85^, [the] Int.[erest] of w«i»
[is] 1^ • 15«; [the] Int.[ere8t] of 6* given by Mr. Rog.[er]
Fleming of Coniston Hall, 5>.

This Chap, [el] was Consecrated and made Parochiall an. [no]
1586.

Certif.ped] an. [no] 1705, 4i.8».10d. Pap. Eeg.

59^ belong, [ing] to y^ Chap, [el is] in y^ hands of 6 Sidesmen,
[at] Present, an. [no] 1717. Certif.lied] an.lnd] 1725 by [the]
Curate.

10 m.[ile8] from [the] Par. [ish] Church ; and some of y Inhab.
[itants are] 14 m. [iles bom it.]

Served by a CarefoU and diligent Minister, 1717.

Coniston Chappelry is only a small part of a TownsP. CotDnif*

should come among hb, and frostrato ua of onr choice." The Salary was then £4 a
year. — Gastrell's M88. Begtatry, Chester,
Mr. BraddjU is the Patron and Impropriator.

' Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834, £100. Begisters begin in
The Township of Church Coniston, or Coniston Fleming, is the most Northern
division of the County. The Manor of Coniston passed by the marriage of Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress of Adam de Urswiok, in the reign of Henry III. to Richard le
Fleming, and Coniston HaU became the fieunily seat for several generations. About
the 10th Henry lY. Thomas le Fleming married Isabel, one of the four daughters
and coheiresses of Sir John de Lancaster, by whom he acquired the Manor of Bydal
in Westmoreland, and for sereral generations more Bydal and Coniston yied with
each other to Hx. the family in Westmoreland or Lancashire. Sir Daniel Fleming
gare preference to the former, and died at Bydal Hall, on the 16th of March 1701 ;
his son and successor. Sir William Fleming, was created a Baronet on the 4th of
October 1704, and was the ancestor of the present Bev. Sir Bichard Fleming Bart.

The Chapel appears to hare been erected through the piety of William Fleming
Esq. and was consecrated by Bishop Chaderton in the year 1686. In 1660 the Paro-
chial Chapel of Coniston was returned as being thirteen and a half miles from the

540 fiMHUi Centvfenftfe*

One Warden, chosen by [the] Curate and Six Sidesmen.
KxH* Conistou.^

^tfyiaU MB ^ endowed School, only [the] Curate teaches in y« Chap.
nW [el.]

€^Ktiti$i. ISIiff ^^^ Money 48^, in y« hands of y« Sidesmen : 5^ giyen by
JamL Mr. IU>g.[er] Fleming, [in 1699, the] Int.[erest] for buy-
ing Sermon books, '' set forth by Orthodox Divines according to
[the] Liturgy of [the] Ch. [urch] of England,'' to read the same
in the Chapel, for y« use of y« Chap. [lain] or Curate; and [the]
Int.[erest] of l(fi [given by his WiU dated 17th Febr. 1703,] to
be divided at Easter among y^ Poor Communicants V^ this
Chappelry.
The Money [is] well secured; Dr. Fleming, Trustee.

««8lS€lt,' Certif.[ied] under 10>
p.[er] an.[num,] viz. 4^ odd money,
paid by [the] Inhab.[itants] out of their Estates; and 5^, [the]
Int.[erest] of lOtf given by Mr. Ambrose. No Surp.[lice] Fees.

Faxiflli Church, haying no maintenance but what the Inhabitants themselTeB
<*for the Salary of S' Bichard Boule, theire Header." — Por^. Inq. Lamb, Libr,

Mr. Braddyll is the Patron.

^ ConiBton Hall, a low antique mansion, with chimneTs ooTered by ivy, on the bor-
ders of the liake, is supposed to haye been rebuilt by William Fleming Esq. who
died in the year 1597, and whose initials lately existed on the panelling of the oak.

1 Patron Saint unknown. Yalue in 1884, £90. Registers begin in 1718.

William de Lancaster, the first Baron of Eendal, granted a portion of land on the
South-East side of Eirkby Moor, near the Biyer Orake, to Bobert de Towen, in the
time of Henry 11. which Gilbert de Towers conyeyed to Wilham, son of Bobert de
Lofwic, afterwards called Bobert de Towers, in the reign of King John. This Estate,
now called the Manor of Lowick, was held by the family of Lowick, whoee arms
appear to denote alliance with the Barons of Eendal, until it came by marriage, be-
fore the reign of Henry YI. to the fionily of Ambrose, in which it continued by
descent until the year 1684^ when, on failure of male issue, the Manor was sold to
John Latus Qent. nephew of the last possessor, and son of William Latus of White-

•eonevs of ;yiiime00 atiH Cwctrntt 541

The Chappelry is but part of a TownsP^ but oantains two Con- ^MnuL
stablewicks^ and more. The Inhab.[itant8j and especially those
called y® Twelve^ and the Feoffees of y^ Chap.[elJ pretend a Bight
to chase the Curate. V.pde] Pap. Reg.

Above 8 m.[ile8] from [the] Par.[ish] Church.

[There is a] place called Subberthwaite w^in this Chappelry.

One Warden for y« Chap, [elj chosen by joint consent of [the]
Curate and Sidesmen.

The Bey^ Mr. Ambrose of Lowick Hall, ab* 40 y« agoe, left 200^
to y^ Chap, [elj one 100^ after his decease, y^ other after y« death
of one O^rge Dodson,^ still living. Certtf. lied'] by [the] Curate
ttn.lno] 1725.

Lowick.^ SalL

|e Curate teaches School. V. [ide] Licence to be Curate t^nuh
and [School] Master, an. [no] 1696. Subs. Icriptian] Book.
No endowment.

httren Qeat. and of his wifb Alice, one of the fire dangliten of John Ambrose Esq.
In the next generation the Estate passed in marriage with Elisabeth, daughter and
heiress of Ferdinand Latns Esq. to Mr. William Blenoowe, who was succeeded by
his second son, William Ferdinand Blenoowe Esq. and haying passed" from his repre-
sentatiye, James Ererard Esq., is now held by the Misses Ererard, who also appoint
the Gnrate.

The Chapel was fomided before the year 1677, and in 1660 was returned as fire and
a half miles from the Parish Church. There was no settled endowment. The Inha-
bitants voluntarily allowed £6 per annum to " S' John Pennington, their Preaching
Minister." The Inhabitants prayed that these Chapels might be made Parish
Churches, and that Lowick and Blawith might be united and made a distinct Parish ;
** and they will build a Church at their own charges, in an indifferent place." — Pitrl.
Inq. Zamb. Libr. The Chapel was rebuilt in 1817 ; and there is a Parsonage-house.

' Gteorge Dodgson was the son of Mr. John Dodgson of Thomthwaite^ by his wife
Esther, daughter of John Ambrose Esq. and sister of the Bev. John Ambrose. He
was grandson of George Dodgson of Thomthwaite Gent, who, before the year 1607,
married Elisabeth, daughter of James Ambrose of Lowick Esq. and of his wife Mar-
garet, daughter of Henry Eirkby of Cross Hall Esq. — Lane. M88, toL xii

' Lowi(^ Hall, the Manor-house^ stands in a retired and lovefy situation, sur-
rounded by ** old ancestral trees," and some parts of the building are of great anti-
quity although the principal part was built about the year 1740, by Mr. Blencowe,
the maternal ancestor of the Misses Ererard, the present owners ^nd occupiers.

542 ftotftta Centrfemfo*

Ci^xrftv* fiitil ^* AtnbtOK^ who left 20tf to y« Chap, [el,] left also 5(y to

y« Poor of Lowick.

''»;ya^

©f|ap**at- ^K «»FSll,» Certif.[ied] T^.l-.O*, viz.

I^S S^- [ary] paid by [the] Inhftb. [itants J
51. 1«; [the] Int.[ere8t] of 40i, 2i.

8 m.[iles] from [the] Par.[i8h] Church.

451 giyen to [the] Curate, viz. 80^ by W. Fleming; 6^ by J.
Fleming; 5^ by J. Atkinson; and 5^ by the 6ent.[lemen] at
BidaU. Certif.[ied] an, [no] 1717.

AcI^0dL M% endowed School, only [the] Curate teaches in y« Chap.

Master to a School^ Licensed an. [no] 1698. Subs,[cryfftion]

B.[pok.']

^ Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1834, £59. Begiflten b^gin in 1661.

Tlie Manor of Tory«r, 00 called from the Birer Torrer, having passed through the
Harringt^ms, was forfeited by the Duke of Suffolk in the year 1654^ and descended,
by purchase in 1786, with IHTerston, to the Duke of Montagu ; a Court Baron being
now held here by the present Manerial owner, his Grace the Duke of Buochmch and
Queensbury K.G.

On the 2dd of July 1588, Archbishop Cranmer granted a Licence from his Faculty
Office, which was confirmed by Parliament, for the Consecration of the Chapel of
Torrer, in which the Inhabitants were then accustomed to hear Mass, and to partake
of the Sacraments and other Divine Offices ; but haying no Burial ground or right of
Sepulture axmexed, and being sixteen English miles( ! ) fr^m their Parish Church of
Ulyerston, and owing to the overflowing of the waters, the bad roads, and the huge
mountains, the burial of the dead was almost impossible, which led the Archbishop to
grant his Licence to some Catholic Bishop, (with the consent of the Rector of Ulver-
ston, and others,) to Consecrate the Chapel and Cemetery. Dated at "the Manor
of Lambehith, in the 6th year of our Consecration." — Lano. M88. voL nix. A
somewhat similar Dispensation was granted by Archbishop Cranmer to the Inhabi-
tants of Broughton, in or before the year 1547. — See p. 628. The Chapel was said to
be eleven miles fr^m the Parish Church, and Parochial, in 1650, but that there was
no Salary except what the Inhabitants raised themselves for ''S' Boger Atkinson, their
Beader.'* They desired to be made a separate Parish. — Pari, Inq. Lamb. lAbr. It
was enlarged in 1848.

The Patron is H. B. G. Braddyll Esq.

•eattevs of ;fbnteM atiH CattmeL 548

tft to the Poor, [before 1695,] 87^, [the] Int.[ere8t to be] e^AtiXn.
distributed yearly.

•2r«N tottii vmwa.«K»K

»&«»«»,» Certif.[ed]20i.05«.00d, viz. Glebe, 41. 5-; -p.
Tyth Hay, Hemp, Live Wool and Lamb, w*^ all other ^. #. d.
Small Tyths, East.[er] Dues, and Surp.[lice] Fees, 16^. syn." 0'. s". 8
[The] Vic.[arage] House and Out-houses [are] down p^^ [^^^

to y« ground, [at] pres.[ent,] 1717. ^^^

Patr.[ons] — great numbers of [the] Inhab.[itants,] among
whom the Tythes and Bight of Patronage are divided by pur-
chase and descent.

This Church was given to [the] Ab.[bot] of Fumes, and an. [no]
1228, it was approp.[riated,] saving y^ Yicaridge as it was before.
MS. Eb, [or.'\

' Before the year 1767, it had heen usual, beyond the memory of man, for the
Curate to teaoh a Qrammar and English Sohool at Torrer Chapel, and of late at the
Sohool-houBe.

1 Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin ICary. Value in 1884, £92. Registers at
Ulyerstone.

Newland Chapel is mentioned in the year 1677, but does not occur in the Great
Slunrey of 1660. The present Chapel was built and endowed by William Fenny Esq.
consecrated in 1791, and enlarged in 1881.

The Patron is J. Fenny Maohell Esq.

1 Dedicated to St. ICary ; St. Michael, [Eoton.] Value in 1884, £86. Begisters
b^gin in

Urswick, the yill of XJrse, though a pure Saxon name, does not occur in JhrnsMdagf^
haying been probably included in the originally extensiye Manor of Aldingham. The
local hmHy were disseised of their possessions, which were at an early period rested
in the Monastery of Fumess. Michael le Fleming obtained Urswio and Bardsey
from the Conyent in exchange for other lands. He gaye to William, son of Edward,

544 ftotftta Centrfemfo*

Val.[ue] 141. Patr.[on, the] Ab.[bot] of Fumes. MS. L.

An. [no] 1585, Patron, [the] Mon.[aster7] of St. Mary de Pur-
nes. In8t.[itutum] B.[ook,] 1, p. 81.

An. [no] 1 Mar. [7, the] Cl.[neen] presented. Jure et Batione
Ducat, [us] Lanc.[astris8.] lb. p. 42.

As also Cl.[ueen] Eliz.[abeth] an. [no] 1579. jB.[ooA,] 2, p. 1.
An. [no] 1585, Bp. Chaderton.

An. [no] 1620, Bob.[ert] Curwen, Chris, [topher] Cbrdiner,
Tho.[mas] Fell, and Tho.[mas] Marshall, [Gents.] Pres.[ented]
as true and undoubted Patrons. lb. p. 71.

An. [no] 1681, [a] Vicar [was] presented by Ant.[hony] Tur-
ner, [Vicar of Dalton,] Tho.[mas] Marshall, Joh.[n] Cockenskell,
Chris, [topher] Grardiner, Tho.[mas] Fell [of Redman Hall,] and
Will.[iam] Postlethwaite, [Yeomen,] as true Patrons. lb. p. 154.

An. [no] 1714, [a] Vicar [was] present, [ed] upon [the] Pre-
sent, [ation] of 42 persons. There was another Presentat.|lon]
at y^ same time, signed by about 28 persons, who Pretended also

half a carucate in Unwick, in marriage, for Ss. per annum ; and he afterwarda gaye
to Adam, son of Bemnlf [de XJrBwick,] two boyates in Urswiok. Adam had GKlbert,
whose Bon, Adam de Urswiok, had a daughter Elizabeth, who anooeeded to the
Manor on the death of her brothers, Adam and John de Urswiok, and who married
in the reign of Henry III. Sir Bichard le Fleming, and conyeyed to him her lai^
Estates, which were held under the Abbey by homage, seryice, and a pound of wax to
make the Abbot's candles at Candlemas. The Flemings' portion of Urswiok was
Much, Miokel or Michaers Urswick, which fell to the Crown on the Dissolution of
the Abbey, and has descended from the Doddings to the present Manerial owner,
Thomas B. G-. Braddyll Esq. who holds it in fee from the Crown, of the Manor of
Muchland, or Michael's land.

In the 27th Edward I. the Manor of Little Urswick, as it is styled, was held by
Bichard Lumbard, and others, for the Abbot of Fumess. The fiiunily of Urswick
long retained lands in Urswick, and high rank in the county, after their patrimonial
Manor had passed to the Le Flemings, and members of it frequently ooour amongst
the Sheriffs and Knights of Lancashire : but the most distinguished of the name was
Christopher Urswick, LL.D. Chaplain to Margaret, Countess of Bichmond and
Derby, called by Shakspeare, (Biohabd HE. act y., s. 6,) " Sir Christopher." Lord
Bacon styles him, the fiuthful, unambitious, and disinterested Ch^lain of Henry
TIL whose Almoner he was; and although sent on eleyen embassies to foreign
princes on behalf of his country, appears to haye died only Beetor of Hackney, on
the 24th of October 1521 .

•Mtiers of ;fttrtie0f» auB eoitmeL 545

a Bight of [the] AdTOwson^ (as it appeared they had^) but they
yielded to y« greater number^ who had likewise much the greater
Share in the Tyths and Patronage appendant.

Left by Tho.[mas] FeU to [the] Vicar [the] Int.[erest] of 2(fi,
to be let out by the 12 or Sidesmen of the Parish.

Every householder in y« Parish pays 2^ to the Vicar, once every
8 years, as a due for Cera Panis,^

No other TownsP but Urswick, only a village called Stainton, CofDnl i.
w<* belongs to [the] TownsP of Leese in Aldingham Parish.

The Church is named and eroepted from the exchange of lands between the Abbot
of Fumesa and Michael le Fleming, aboot the year 1220, the Abbot, John, having
giren it to Daniel the Clerk, MichaePs son. The AdyowBon belonged to the Monks
of Fumess, and was confirmed to them, ''cum capellis," saving the Vicarage of
twelve marks, after the decease of W. de Bovill, together with the Church of Bal-
ton, by W« Archdeacon of Richmond, in 1288. The Churches of Ulverston and
Penington, as dependent on Urswick, were claimed by the Monks of Fumess, and are
the Chapels referred to in the Archdeacon's Confirmation. The Church of " Wurs-
wythk" was valued at £6. 6s. 8d. in 1291. The Advowson continued with the Abbots
of Fumess until 1635, the right of presentation being afterwards exercised by the
Crown, in right of the Duchy of Lancaster, until 1579, and is said by Baines to
have been exercised by the Inhabitants for the first time in 1681, which was pro-
bably not the case.

The Church, situated at a distance from any habitation, is a low and venerable pile
with a large and massive embattled Tower, on the West side of which is a figure of
the Virgin and Child cut in stone, and defaoed by time. Some of the Windows are
narrow and Isnoet shaped, ornamented with tracery, whilst the more modem ones
are plain and equare-headed. In the Tower is a Bell, which, from its inscription, was
the gift of Sir William Harington and Dame Margaret his wife. Sir William was
Standard Bearer at the Battle of Azincourt, and died in 1450. His wife was Mar-
garet, daughter of Sir Bobert Nevile of Hornby Castle.

In 1650 Urswick was returned as being four and a half nules in longitude and
three in latitude, and the Vicarage in the gift of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster. The Tithes were impropriated to Mr. Fleming of Bydall, to Mr. Anderton of
Bardsley, a Papist delinquent, and to the Parishioners, being worth altogether £60
per annum. There was a Vicarage-house, in a decayed state, two acres of Glebe^ and
the Small Tithes, valued at £20 per annum. Mr. Nicholas Marshall MA. was the
Minister, and Master of a Free School. '* He is scandalous in life, and negligent in
both his callings." — Petri, Inq. Lamb. Libr. The Church was repewed in 1826.

' The origin of this payment may be probably traced in the following manner.
About the year 1800 Bobert de Denton, Abbot of Fumess, granted a Licence to Sir
Bidhard de Couplsnd, to found a Chantry in his Chapel of Bolton in Urswick ; and

VOL. II.] 4 A

546

iMftto €e«tv<emfo.

Cj^sritirif.

4 ChurchwardenSi choMoi as [the] Canon directs. 1, for Stain-
ton cum Adgarley; 2, for Little Urswick, Bolton^ Bolton heads,
and Beckside; 8, for Great Urswick; [and] 4, for Berdsea.

One Ancient Seat called Berdsea HalL^

tXi is a Free Gram, [mar] School, fonnded by Will.[iam]
Marshall [in 1580, with permission of Archbidiop Parker,

to whom it was referred,] endowed w^ 15^ P*[^] an.[nmn] out of

a Manonr in Leioest. [er] sh. [ire. Norfolk (?)]

12 GoTem.[ors] nom.[inate the] Master. y.[ide] Nom.[ina-

tion] by [the] Govemours an. [no] 1696. Pap. Reg.

tbtn to [the] Poor by [a] person unknown, [probably John
Preston Esq. by Deed dated 14th May 1625,] 8^, secured

upon Mortgage; 8^ more, by [a] person unknown, in danger to be

lost. Pres.[ented] an. [no] 1717.

Sir Bichard gave aimiiallj four pounds of wax to the Mother Church of UrBwiok, on
the Feast of St. Michael, for the good of his soul, and apparently as a compensation
for anj damage the Mother Church might sustain by this new foundation. Bolton is
now a single messuage. The Arches, Doors, and Windows of the ancient Chapel,
may still be traced, as well as the Chantry, now a dwelling-house.

' Bardsea was originally a member of the Manor of Muehland, and afterwards of
Fnmess, retaining its Manerial Court until the beginning of the last century, when
the customary tenants became free. The family of Bardsea descended from Adam de
Bardsea, who was a witness to the Charter of Ingelram de Gt-hynes to his Burgesses of
Ulyerston, and continued here until the death of Nicholas Bardsea Esq. in the year
1642, when the Estates passed with Elizabeth, the elder heiress, to James Anderton of
Clayton. The Manor was purchased by Lord Molyneux, about the year 17S6, lor a
hunting seat ; and very shortly after the latter date it became the property of Chris-
topher Wilson Esq. who dying without issue male, his Estates were divided between
his two daughters and coheiresses. Sarah, the elder, bom in 172S, married John
Gale of Whitehaven Esq. and had, with other issue^ a daughter Margaret, bom on
the 26th of May 1757, married at St. James's, Westminster, on the 25th of July
1785, Bichard Gbeaves Townley of Belfield Hall in the county of Lancaster Esq. and
a son, Wilson Ghde, who ass\mied the surname of Braddyll, and the Estate is now
vested in his representative, Colonel Braddyll of Conishead Priory.

The Hall is an ancient building, and after Ghistrell's time, was restored^ the gafdena
being made, aooording to West, "at vast expense."

Seanrp of ItentraU/ in ilanta«!jtre.

(&%€0^t^ IN THE Sands, Certif. ,,
[ied] 281. 03'. 044, viz. Glebe, W; ^^
' Peii8,[ioii paid] out of [the] Beet. Lij-J
. [ory,] &.ld^-4fi; Ea8t.[er] Buea, 4^- &1
10" ; Broken Tyths of Wool and ^ ■■
Lamb, 21; Tyth Hemp and Flax, 2';
Snrp.[Uce] fees, l'.
This Church [was] given to y*
Priory of Lane, [aster] by the Fonnder. MS. Bbor. ©.[ugdale'a]
Mon.\suticon,'\ v.[ol.] 1, p. 566.

An. [no] 1267, Walter, Abp. of York, Approp. [riated] the
Church of Bolton prope Lancaster, (oat of w<* the Archd.[eacon]
of Riclmi.[ond] then received a Pens.[ion] of 40'p.[er] an.[num,])
to y" Archd.[eacon] and his Success. [ors] for ever. The Tyths
and Glebe Lands thereof, and of y" Church of Clapham, the
Archd.[eacon] demised for 66i-18'-4i^ P-[er] an.[num.] MS.
Eb.\or:\ V.fide] 0.\ld] Be^.^Uter,} M. M.

' lie Bond DcMieriet of Xndol and Loiudale ftppear to hftre been nmtad before
Hm ftm 1291, M tlie tmea ChnrohcB in tlieee Beaneriee ue at Uiat time claued toge-
ther. — Pope NUholaa' V^Uor.

' Dedicated to the Hoi; Trimtj. Talne in 18U, £169. Begistan begin in 1668.

Bolton-fe-Sudi — the Bodeltone of Domeiiay — along with the Chunh, Tithes,
and kalf » osnicate, wm gmn b; Bogei de Foioton to the Prioiy of Lanoaiter,
■hcMljr after the Conqveat Ute famil; of Bolton held luidi under the Priorj, and
•M iMBwd in the Tita de NavUl,' and in the Chartnlu; of I&ncaiter. The Manor
of Bolton was, howercr, appurtenant to the Omreh, whioh in th« jetx 1367, waa
perpetnallj appropriated to the Archdeaeonr; of Bichmond, the Arohdeacon hanng

548 #iititia Centrtetwto*

An. [no] 1886^ the ArcM.[eacon] settled the Yicaridge, ap-
pointing 7* j^ Yicar sh^ be Instituted to y^ Church of Bolton,
with the Chap, [el] of EeUet^ and that he should hare a House
and Croft near j^ Churchy 7 Acres of Arable Land, called Gbue-
lands, an acre and [a] half of meadow, &c. w^ all Small Tyihs
and Mortuaryes in Bolton and Eellet. R^.lister.']

An. [no] 1424, [the] Archd.[eacon] of Bichm.[ond was] Col-
lated to Bolton in Lonsdale. Reff.[i8ter,'] Bowety f. 24.

This Church in y« Charter of Dotation is called '' Capella sive
Cantaria de Bolton in Londisdale.'^

An. [no] 1695, [a] Complaint [was] made to y« Bp. y* y* andent
Sal.[ary] to [the] Vicar was detained by [the] Bp's Lessee. It
does not appear upon what ground. Pap. Beg.

An. [no] 1705, Certif.[ied] y* y« Glebe Land was about 18
acres ; most of it [being] proper for Com, and not Grasse ; worth
about 20^ P*[6i^] an. [num.] lb.

[The] Bp. of Chester [is the] Improp.[riator] and Patron.

already there an annnal penfiion of 400. On aoooiint of its yioinity to Oapham,
Bolton nerer afforded a residence to the Archdeacon, though^ when choice was free^ it
might reasonably be enquired what were the grounds of such a preference? The
Church does not occur in the Valor of 1291. On the Dissolution of the Priory, the
Manor and Adyowson fell to the Crown, and were annexed to the See of Chester in
1641 ; and a Court for the Manor and Eectory, is now held by the Bishop's Lessees.

The Church consists of a Nave, Aisles, North Transept, and Chancel, with a castel-
lated Tower, the latter being yery ancient and handsome. Two rows [of low angular
Columns with corresponding Arches of a former building still remain, although much
of the Church was rebuilt in the year 1816, the Transept finished in 1880, and the
Chancel re-edified in 1846. The Chancel Windows are filled with stained glass, by
Wailes, representing the Crucifixion, the Ascension, and yarious armorial bearings of
the donor, John Holden Esq. There are monuments in the Church to the memory
of «M. Robert Cole, late of the Coute Esq." who died in 1642; and of "Thomas
Cole of Beaumont Cote Esq. who died January 11th A.D. 1691, a Magistrate of Qyer
and Terminer, and Deputy Lieutenant of the County."

In 1650 the Bectory was returned as an Appropriation belonging to "the late
Bishop of Chester," who let it on liyes, to Sir Henry Compton, a delinquent. It was
then fiinned for the State, at £310 a year. There was also a Yicarage-house, seyen-
teen acres of Glebe, no Tithes of Com, but Tithes of Wool, and the Small Tithes
throughout the whole Parish, (except Orer Eellet, worth £4 per annum,) xeoeired by
the Vicar, and estimated at £20 per annum. The then Incumbent, Mr. John

BtnmKs of WUtaul. 540

Viz. 1, Bolton cum Sandside; 2, Nether Kellet; 8, Sline cum Colotul. 8.
Hest, (besides the Chappelry,) for w^ there are 8 Churchw.[ar-
dens] chosen accord, [ing] to [the] Canon.

No ancient Seat but Beaumont-Cote^^ belong, [ing] to [the] )^«n«
Fam.[ily] of the Coles^ time out of mind.

nf is a Free School^ [founded by Thomas Assheton by Will t^^anX.
dated the 6th of May 1619^ with a yearly rent of SOs. and]
endowed w^ 8^ P*[6r] an.[num] by John Slater^ and Gk)yemed by
y« Vicar and 8 Feoffees. Sal-fary] » • 10« p.[er] an. [num.]
Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1719. In 1705^ Robert Mayor gave by
WiU, jBIO.

The School was erected at y« charge of y^ Parish^ an. [no] 1627.

The Nine Feoffees nom.[inate] the Master. An^ Stipend to y^
Master^ about 8^- 10* p.[er] an. [num. The] Master is paid out of
Lands first giyen by Tho.[mas] Ashton of Hestbank, an.[no]
1620. Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1722.

film to y^ Poor [before 1686 J about 40> p. [er] an. [num J Clftirits.

taken care of by y« Feoffees of y« SchooL In 1718, John
Bippon gave by Will 10* a year, to poor housekeepers of Nether
Kellett.

Jaoqaee, had £100 a year allowed out of the Sectory, by order of the Committee of
GoldamithB' HaU, on Sir Henry Oomptou's compoBition, paid by Mr. Ghamberlam. —
Pari. 2kq» Lamb, JAbr,

* Beanmont Cote a^oins the Monastio Grange of Beaumont in Skerton, and was
held lor many generationB by the fiunily of Cole, until it was oonyeyed in marriage by
Dorothy, daughter and heireee of Edmund Cole Esq. Sheriff of Lancashire in the
year 1707, to Thomas Butler of Kirkland Esq. who died in 1748. His son, Alflrandflff
Butler of Kirkland and Cote Esq. dying unmarried in 1811, devised his Estates to
his great nephew, Thomas Butler Esq. (grandson of Arohdeaoon Thomas Butler, who.
died in 1825, aged ninety-one^) with an ii^unotion to assume the surname of Cole.
He is the present representatiye of these two yery ancient and reipectable
See p. 411.

550 iMMa eMMtmfo*

VBlt itSl»B8:»> Gertif.[i6d] under
9 p.[er] aa.[iiiiinj vis. Easter BeAf^
21; Broken Tyth of Wool imd Lamb, 1^; Tyth of Hemp and Flax,
3i-10«; Oeese, Ducks, &c. 10«; Legall Brats, 2^; Suip.[Ii€e]
Fees, under 1^

Oiyen since by G. Eskrigge, S0^ p*[er] an.[nnm] in Land.

An. [no] 1668, John Baileman gare 2I» ix> j^ C9u9.[el,] w«i> is
now laid out in Land for j^ use of y* Curate. An. [no] 1726.

John Wilson gaye also 2(y to y^ Chap, [el, the] Int.[ere8t] of
w^ is duly paid out of Land. Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1725.

[The] Inhab.[itant8] of this Chappebry doe not contribute to
[the] repairs of Bolton Church, or pay Mortuaryea to [the] Yicar
as [the] Inhab.[itants] alledge, an. [no] 1698. Pug?. Beg.

One Knotts, Vicar of Bolton, Sued W. Curwen, Min. |lster] of
Oyer Kellet, for a Noble p.[er] an.[num] due to y* Vicar, but
was cast at Chester. lb.

1 Dedicated to St. Cathbert. Value in 1834, £170. Begisten begin in 1668.

ThiB is tlie Ohellet of DomescU^, and was held by Onne de Kelkt in the reigna of
Biohard I. and King John, of the Crown, by Seijeanty of keeping the Wapentake of
Lonsdale. Sir l^nrstan de Holland married the daughter and heiress of Adam de
Kellet, and the King, in the year 1819, confirmed to Robert de HoQsnd, in general
tallage, amongst other things, the demesnes of Kellet. In the reign of Edward m.
the Manor was held by Henry, son of Roger de Crofte, and Ranulph de Dacre.
These possessions passed in the reign of Charles U. to Sir John Otway of Ingmine in
the Parish of Sedbergh, who is memorable for his aotirity hi the restoration of
Charles U. He detised his lands here to Dr. Charles Otway, a distinguished drilian,
and to Braithwaite Otway Esq. one of whom sold the Manor of Kdlet in the begin-
ing of the last century, to Olirer Marton Esq. father of the Bey. Olirer Marton
LL.B. who died Vicar of Lancaster, in 1794, learing a son, Olrrer Marton Esq. on
whose death, unmarried, in 1848, his nephew, Geoige Marton, now of OapemwM^
New Hall Esq. saooeeded to the Estate, being a son of George Richard Marton, who^
in 1797, obtained an Act of Pavliaaient to authorise him to endose and diyide the
Common called *'Ofer Kellet Moor," being one thousand aeres. He waa High Shsfiif
of the County in 1882.

About the year 1690 the old Manor-house of Capemwray was attempted to be
pulled down, when the workmen were compelled to desist, until the masses of ancient
grout-work had been broken by gunpowder : such was the admirable cement of for-
mer times.

Btamts of WktvMl

551

An. [no] 1698^ Nom.[ination] of a Curate by [the] Inhab.
[itantsj and dispute upon it. Y.[ide] Pap. Reg.

An. [no] 1715^ O. Eskrigg^ gave a Messuage, w^ Lands contain-
ing ab^ 26 acres, and worth 24^ p-[er] an.[nunij to y ChappeU.
C3ert.[ified] an. [no] 1725.

2 m.[iles] from [the] Par.[iBh] Church.

ete is a Free School, endowed w^ [the] Int.[ere6t] of 20(y
by Mr. Tho.[mas] Wilson, now settled upon Lands [He
died in 1702.]

An. [no] 1693, Walter Cocke gaye 20^ to this School, [the]
Liit.[erest of which is] paid out of Lands in y® TownsP.

V.pde] Nom.[ination] of Master by [the] Feoffees, w*** a Bond
from [the] Master to turn out upon a Quarter's warning. Re-
jected by [the] Bp. an. [no] * * * Pap, Beg.

^(f^OOl.

Qien to y« Poor of Over Kellet at different times, by different
Persons, 78^, [the] Int.[erest] of w«^ is Duly paid out of

Lands. [Of this Thomas Withers gave, in 1709, Land producing

£4u 188. 6d. a year, in 1786.]

The Chapel of Keilei is situated in a quiet spot aboTe the village, and in the Yard
afe two email Crossee, partly sunk beneath the soil, proving that the Chapel existed
prior to the Seformation. In 1660 it was styled Parochial, and four miles from the
Paciflh Churoh. Mr. William Smith, "their Preaohisg Minister,'* receiyed j£10 a
year from the Small Tithes, and ^60 a year by order of the (Goldsmiths' Hall Com-
mitiee^ out of the Sequestered Tithes of Sir Henry Compton. — JPark Inq. Lamb, JAhr.

S. F. Bradshaw Esq. appointed the Ineumbent in 1882. . GTbe present Patron is
John Wahnsley Esq. of Biohmond House^ Laneaster. There is a Parsonage-house.

* Mr. QeorgeEskriggeof Orer Edlet, died on the 7th of June 1716. This good
man} oommisarating the Minister of that Chapel, whose Xnoome thence arising did
not exceed twenty pounds per annum» (many who nerer met with so good a bene-
fiMtor, did not at that time exceed as many shillings,) by his last Will dated the 22d
of Deoember 1718, gare his own dwelling-house, gardens, and lands, of the annual
yalne of £80, to certain Trustees, for the better support of the Minister there^ pro-
Tided that he be of the communion of the Churoh of £n|[^and, and constantly
rcMde in, and officiate at, Orer Eellet.— Whitaker's lUckmondMre, toL u. p. 286.

C^iPTttM*

552

fiMMA etnttkMfsi*

•.^90.00. 7i "
Syn... 0. 1. 6
TrL... 0. 6.

Fun.

Pap. L Fam.

«lff«W Certif.[ied] 57i.l7«.09d, viz. Tyth of Com

of all sorts, 4(fi; Tyth Wool and Lamb, 61.6>.8d;

Hemp, Flax, and Kgg, ILIO*; Quit Eents, 61.18».4d;

Gteese, Eggs, and Surp.[lice] Pees, 1^ •!()■; Ea8t.[er]

Dues, 4^. Ded.[uct] Tenths and Acquit, [tance,] 2i*0"«5*; Syn.

[odals] and Acquit, [tance,] I'-IO^.

Patron, Mr. Carus, a Papist.

Val.[ue] 40*. Pat.[ron,] L* Dacre. MS. L. where it is placed
in Lonsdale Deanry.

An. [no] 1542, S' WiU.[iam] Dacre Pres.fented] as true Patron.
In8t.\itution\ B.[ook^ 1, p. 14.

1 Dedicated to St. Wilfred. Valae in 1834, £479. Begisten begin in 1592.

At the Domesday Siurej, Halton contained twenty-two dependent TownshipB, and
was the head of a Barony or Honor, being the property of the Saxon Earl Toeti,
but the modem Parish contains only Halton and Aughton, whilst the rest haye
merged in other, or become distinct, Parishes. Halton was giren by William the
Conqueror to Roger of Poiotou, who appears to haye granted it to the Gemets. In
the reign of Edward L William, son and heir of Banulph de Daore, liord of Dacre in
Cumberland, married Joan, daughter and heiress of Boger, son of Benedict Gemet,
Lord of Halton, and obtained the Manor. He died in the year 1818, and his
descendant, Banulph de Dacre, being skin at Towton, and afterwards attainted, his
Estates were forfeited, but as Humphrey Daore, his brother, was in great finrour
with Edward lY. Whitalter considers that it may at least be matter of doubt whether
the Manor of Halton was not restored : but Dugdale states that Sir Bichaid Fiennes
obtained it by grant, on his marriage with Joan, sole heiress of Thomas, son of
Thomas, Lord Daore, in 1459, previous to the attainder. It is supposed to hare been
sold by Margaret, sister and heiress of Gregory Fiennes, ninth Lord Dacre, (who ob.
in 1694^) or by Samson Lennard, her husband, to Justice Cams, who devised it to
his son. Sir Christopher Cams Ent. who died in 1688, and in whose descendants
it continued until 1718, when it was sold to Mr. Bradshaw, by certain Com-
missioners, owing to the part Francis Carus Esq. had taken in the BebeUion of 1716.
WiQiam Bradshaw of Halton Esq. the descendant of this purchaser, devised the
Manor in 1774, to his nephew, William, son of Bobert Fletcher Gent, and dying
the following year, his successor assumed the surname of Bradshaw, and in 1797,
by the name of William Bradshaw Bradshaw Esq. obtained an Act of Parliament
to enclose and divide Halton Moor within his Manor of Halton. On the death
of his son, Bobert Fletcher Bradshaw Esq. the Manor was sold to John Swainson of
Frenchwood Esq.

•eanets of lteti9aL 553

An. [no] 1706, [a] Cayeat [entered] by Bennison and Moor.
Subs.lcripium] B.[ook.']

Towns, [liips:] Halton and Anghton, for w«*» [there are] 2 CaiDW<*a.
Chnrchw. [ardens.]

Within Halton Towns? are Halton Oreen and Halton Park.^ KolU.

fbm by Mr. [Thomas] Withers, [Rector of HaltonJ Iff, €fyxcitM.

[invested in Land,] 10s. a year to the Poor, 40s. a year for
a Schoolmaster, and the residue in Books for Poor Children; and
Robert Burton's Charity, given by Will in 1697, being certain
Lands in Halton.

A ChuTch is snpposed to haye existed here anterior to the Conquest. A Saxon
Cross still remains in the Church-jard, and a Boman Totiye Altar has been disco-
vered there. A few yean ago, an elegantly chased silver cup, containing eight hun-
dred coins of the reign of Canute, and a gold Torque, were discovered on enclosing
Halton Moor. A few yards to the North-East of the Church, is a lofty circular
elevation called Castle TTill, supposed to have been the site of a small Saxon for-
tress.

The Church in the year 1291 was valued at £12. In 1660 the Living was returned
as a Parsonage ''anciently presentative by Thomas Cams Esq. the elder, a Papist."
The Commissioners had heard that there was a Parsonage-house and some Glebe
Lands belonging to the Parsonage, concerning which there was then a Suit pending
whether it was Glebe or not, but they knew not the particulars. The Parson received
£80 a year, without reference to the Lands in Suit. Mr. Thomas Whitehead MA^
was the Sector. — Pari. Inq. Lamb, lAhr,

The present Church was rebuilt in 1792. It is '* a plain, unfeatured, frugal struc-
ture." The square massive Tower was permitted to remain. The Advowson for-
merly passed with the Manor, until its recent sale to John Thompson of Holme
Island Esq. when a separation took place. Mr. Thompson sold the Advowson
on the 22d of March 1848, for £6,850, the then Incumbent being aged sixty-one,
and the value of the Bectory of Halton and Curacy of Aughton being estimated at
£610 per annum.

* Halton Hall is a plain spacious mansion, with a centre, two wings, and transom
windows. It was built by one of the last of the Cams £unily, on the site of the
Manerial residence of the Dacres. It adjoins the Church, and the surrounding
scenery is beautifully picturesque. It is now the seat of John Swainson Esq.

VOL. 11.] 4 B

554 ^otitta et%Mmki%.

neit^^V,^ Ceriif.[ied] 22^^0»'04^,
viz. left lately by IU>b.[ert] Burton
Gent. 20^ p. [er] an. [nnm] in [a] Freehold Estate called [Lower]
Highfield^ in y Chappdry^ rested in [Mr. Thomas WithersJ
Beet, [or] of Halton^ and [Dr. James FentonJ yic.[ar] of Lane.
[aster^ and the Bector and Vicar] for [the] time being, and Mr.
£dm.[mid] Withers, and his Heirs, asTrostees; [the] Int.[erest]
of 14gi — 7i.8»'4*, secured by y said Trustees; out of it^ Ded.
[uct] 5^ •5* for a WidoVs Dower during her Life. 1717.

The Chappell was rebuilt by [the] Inhab.[itants,] Gertif.[ied]
an. [no] 1722, 241 p.[er] an. [num.]

Atbant 9^[ ^ Curate, in consideration of y^ Sal.[ary] left him by Bob.

[ert] Burton, [in 1697,] is obliged to teach School Freely.

1 Dedicated to St. Q«orge. Value in 1884^ £140. Begbters at Halton.

The Manor of Hoton, or Anghton, ia an appurtenant of Halton, and the Lord
of that Manor exercisea Manerial rights here. Baines states that *'the Olirerian
Suryej made in 1650, reoommends that Anghton shonld be added to GbtMsinghain,"
[Ghreesingham,] owing to its distance irom the Parish Church. ''But," adds Mr.
Baines, (vol. ir. p. 689,) *'Mr. Robert Barton obyiated this inoonyenienoe in the jear
1697, by erecting and endowing the Chapd and School at Anghton. A Mr. Lawson
enlarged the endowment hj the bequest of Lower Highfield." On this statement
it may be observed that a Chapel existed here long before the Olryerian Sorrej, —
that it is expressly named as being in existence when that Liquisition was taken, —
that it was rebuilt by the Inhabitants after the Ciril War, and was not founded
by Mr. Robert Burton in 1697. The Inquisitors of 1660 reported that ** Anghton
Chapel is four miles from the Parish Church, with neither maintenance nor
nister. Anghton is at one end, and Halton Church at the other end of the
If the Church were remoTcd to some conrenient place or near the middle of Uie
Parish, or the same Inhabitants of Aughton annexed to Ghressingham, it would sup-
ply the whole much better." — Pari. Surv. Lcmb. Ubr, The Chapel is situated on
an eminence, and commands extensiye and delightful views, the Rirer Lune being the
Korthem boundary of the Chapelry. There is a Parsonage-house.

The Curate is appointed by the Sector of Halton and Vicar of Lancaster.

•eaiters ^f iteiiBaL 565

mt&Ht^Umf' Certif.[ied] 7tf.09-.06d, viz. Pars, [on- j^^^ 5,^
age] honse. Garden, Chnrch-yard, [and] Glebe, dear ^■•; J; ^; J
of Taxes, 20^; Tyth of Grain of all sorts. Hay, Wool, f^ .1.
Lamb, and other Small Tytbs, let for 50^; Ea8t[er] ^^ *

Dues, 11 . 10«. Ded. [net] Tenths and Acquit, [tanee,] 1 7« • 8* ; Syn.

[odals] and Acquit. [tanee,] 3".3<^.
[A] Beet, [or] of Hescham Pres. [ented] by [the] Abbesse and

Convent of St. Saviour's, and St. Marye's, and St. Bridgett de

Oxon, [Sion? of the] Ord.[er] of St. Aug.[ustine,] an. [no] 1434.

Reg. [ister,'] Bowet, f. 62.

> Dedieatod to St. Peter. Value in 1834, ^8504. Begbters begin in 1668.

Heseam, in the Domefday Bmrveff^ was one of the rills of the Manor of Hahon.
The name signifies the habitation of Hesse or Hessa, the original Saxon proprietor,
who took possession of a rooh and small tract of kmd, probably nearly insulated by
the sea. A high point of this rock orerlooked nearly erery creek and comer of More-
oombe Bay ; and on this rock a Chapel) dedicated to St. Patrick, was erected, accord-
ing to Dr. Whitaker, at an eariy period of the Saxon era^ the remains of which are
still Tisible. Under the Normans the Manor was held by the Hessams, and Agnes,
the wife of Adam de Gemot, complained to King John, in the year 1199, that Roger
de Leioeater had married his daughter to Thomas her son, who ought to be a Royal
Ward, in order to obtain his lands in Heysham and Oaton. In the 8d John, Thomas
Gemot obtained seisin of these lands. The femily of Lucy afterwards held the Manor
under the Gemots, firom whom it passed, in the twelfth century, with Joan, daughter
of Alioe de Lucy, to Ranulf de Dacre, and by the marriage in the next generation of
William de Dacre with the heiress of Benedict Gemot, firom a mesne lord he became
aole proprietor. In the time of Edward III. Sir John Harrington held the Manor,
but how he obtained it is not clear. Heysham continued annexed, however, to
Hornby, until the year 1688, when it was sold, it is supposed, by William Parker,
liord Morley. In subsequent times, it was in possession of the Corporation of Lan*
oaeter, by whom it was sold in 1767 for about £800, to the anoestors of the present
proprietors, who are twelre in number.

The Church of Heysham, with the third of all the town, was giren by Roger de
Poiotou to the Priory of Lancaster and Abbey of Sees, and in the year 1801, Thomas
Gbenewode, subdeacon. Rector of Heysham, acknowledged that it was held of the
Priory by an annual pension of 6s. 8d. The Church of '* Hesh'm*' was valued at £10
in 1291. At the Dissolution of the Alien Houses, it was annexed by Henry VI. to
the Abbey of Sion in Middlesex, although firom the text it might seem that the
Patronage had not been exercised immediately by the Nuns of Sion. After the sup-

666 ^tftta Cffitriemfo*

Heshain [yalued at] 121 Patr.[on^ the] Abb. [ess] of Syon.
MS.L.

An. [no] 1682, Gabr.[iel] Croft Esq. Patron. In8t.[Uutum] B.
[oo*J 2, p. 10.

An. [no] 1671, Mr. Tho.[ma8] Mather presented. lb. p. \4St,

An. [no] 1698, W. Worden [Gent.] Patron. lb.
Cototul* [The] Par.[ish is] divided into 2 Villages, Higher and Lower
Heysham.

2 Churchw.[ardens,] who serve Jointly for [the] whole Par.
[ish.]

No School, nor Charities.

preseion of the Beligioiu Houses, it £bI1 to the Grown, and was soon alienated. It
passed through sereral hands during the serenteenth century. In 1650 the Failia-
mentary Inquisitors returned the Living as presentatire by Mr. G^rge Parkinson of
Fairsnape in Bleasdale. The Tithes of Ghrain and Com throughout the whole Parish,
and the Tithes of Wool, Fish, Ac. were valued at £100 a year, which Mr. William
Ward M. A. received. — JParl, Jm^. Laimb. lAhr. voL ii The Advowson appears to
have been bought in 1786, for £400, of William Werden, pkierden, in Whitaker,]
(^ent. (who presented in 1698-9,) by the Bev. Thomas Clarkson, Yicar of Chipping
and Bector of this Parish, and by his descendant, the Bev. T. Y. Bidley, the Bector,
the Advowson was sold on the 9th of July 1844, for £8,000, to Clement Boyds of
Mount Falinge Esq. (now Sheriff of Lancashire,) the Tithes having been commuted
for £470, and the Qlebe consisting of ninety acres, with a Bectory-house.

The Church, situated near the sea at Lower Heysham, is small, mean, and white-
washed, though formerly dignified by a Tower, which was pulled down, according to
tradition, and the Bells removed to Hornby, while the Manor was in the noble
fiunily to which that place belonged. The Chancel Arch is plain and massive Nor-
man, but the East Window of the Choir is exquisitely decorated, and a beautiful side
Window is now choked up by a modem pew. The Arches forming the South Aisle
are of the time of Heniy YIL ; and additions were made in the early part of the
seventeenth century.

In the Church is a curious monumental stone, with the ridged or coped roof
covered with figures of stags, boars, dogs, and men, and may be attributed to a period
not later than the eleventh or twelfth century. There are also several stone oo£Ebu
and coffin lids.

Btamts of SetiBaL 557

[1 p. 1 Q.]

aHWCdW Certif.[ied] 7».15».00d, viz. Vic.[arage] V*
house^ Grarden^ Churchyard^ and a small Close of half ^ £. «. d.
an Acre, 2^; Stipend from [the] Improp.[riatorJ 80^, Sff" •®* '^' ^
(out of w«^ is to be deducted 5^ for [the] Curate of J^^by^mni^

Silyerdale ;) Surp. [lice] fees, 1^ . 1 5». Pam.

[The] Yic.[ar] payes taxes and all assessments but to [the] ^i&8.''m.'jl
Church, out of his Stipend of 80^ p. [er] an. [num.]

At the Restoration, [the] Sal. [ary] to [the] Vicar was but 20^
p.[er] an.[num,] but [was] augmented quickly after to 80^, by
[the] Dean and Chap, [ter] of Worcester, [the] Improp.[riators.]
V. [ide] Dr. Hopkins^ Lett, [er.] Pap. Reg.
An. [no] 1421, [an] Instit.[ution] to [the] Rectory of Warton
upon Pres.[entation] of [the] Crown. Beff.[i8t€r,'] Archd.[eacon]
Bowet, f. 12.

> Dedicated to the Holy Trinity ; St. Oswald, [Lucas.] Value in 1834, ^B7.
Begisten begin in 1668.

At Domeflday Survey, Warton was one of the twelve Manors which constituted the
district of Ovstevric, belonging to the Saxon chieftain Torfin, and embracing a consi-
derable portion of the Yorkshire Wapentake of Euecross. It is probable that soon
after the Conquest, Warton became a Member of the great Barony of Kendal, and
descended through the fiiunily of De Lancaster, to GHlbert Fits Beinfred, to whom
Xing John, in the first part of his reign, granted a weekly Market every Wednesday,
in his Manor of Warton. On the death of William de Lancaster without issue, in
the 81st Henry m. his large Estates descended to the children of his sister, and the
Manor of Warton derolved upon Walter, son of William de Lyndsey, whilst the
Barony of Kendal fell to Peter le Bnis. From the Lyndseys the Manor passed to
the Couojs and Couplands, and probably to the Crown, on the death of Sir John de
Coupland, without heirs. It continued to be held immediately of the Crown untU
the year 1811, when it was purchased by Thomas Inman of Silrerdale Esq. who
oonreyed it shortly afterwards, by sale, to John Bolden of Hyning Hall Esq.

The Advowson of Warton appears to have belonged to Peter le Brus, on whose
death without issue, in the year 1272, the Barony of Kendal passed with Margaret,
one of his four sisters and coheiresses to William de Bos of Ingmanthorpe, whose
daughter Isabel married Marmaduke de Thwenge^ who held lands in Warton, and
elsewhere, in right of his wife. On the death of Thomas de Thwenge, a Priest, in the
4L8th Edward III. his Estates were divided between his three sisters, namely, Lucy,
wife of Sir Bobert de Lumley j Margaret, wife of Sir Bobert de Hilton of Swine

558 Jlotftia ftei»trieturf0*

Wharton Rect.[ory is] yal.[ued at] 8&. Patron^ L^ Lumley.
MS. L. where 'tis put into Amound.[eme8s] D.[eanery.]

An. [no] 1558^ [the] Dean and Chapter of Worcester presented.
Inst.[Uutian] B.lpok,'] 1, p. 89.

They have been Patrons ever since.

The Church is an ancient bat large and fait buildings Dedicated
to the Holy Trinity.
CofDtut* 8. Viz. 1^ Warton cum Lindeth ; 2, Camforth com Berwick ; 3,
Yelland Conyers^ Yelland Redmame cu Silverdale, and Priests
Hutton^ w^ last is reckoned cu Dalton in Burton Par.[ish] in
[the] Constables' Assessments.

In Warton are 2 Churchw.[ardens] and 2 Sidesmen; in the
other 7 villages^ 1 Churchw. [arden] and 1 Sidesman each.

The 9 Churchwardens are returned by House-row, or, as y*
People call it. Neighbour-row.

in HoldemesB, (erroneously called by Whitaker, Sumo ;) and Kstherine^ wife of Sir
Salph Dawbemy. Whitaiker obserres that in this partition it b not known to whose
portion tbe Manor of Warton fell ; but it is certain that the Manor had been, befora
this time, in the Lyndsejs, and in the 49th Edward m. the Adyowaon bekmged to
the LnmlejB. In the 7ih Bichard IL Sir Mannadnke Lomley was Flatron of the
liTing, and was smnnumed to Parliament as one of the Barons of the Bealm, from
the 8th Bich«rd 11. to the 1st Heniy TV, in which year he was attainted, (his lands
being confiscated,) for joining in the rebellion of Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent,
against Henry lY. The act of attainder was afterwards reversed by Edward IV. ;
but the Advowson appears to have continued in the Crown, and was conreyed by
Letters Patent dated the 6th of February 1547, along with the Bectoiy, to the I>ean
and Chapter of Worcester, in exchange for other property. In 1291 the Liring was
TBlued at £66. 13s. 4d.

The Church is of late perpendicular, and was rebuilt about the time of Heniy Vll.
or Henry YIEL and a Chantry in it was dissolred in the year 1647. The interior is
spacious and light. There is a Parsonage-house. "Warton Rectory is an Impro-
priation now belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. Compositio super
Decimis in Warton coram B. Exon Ep5. — Ckarhiiar, Priorat, de LatUm^ foL 161 ;
Biibl. CoftUm ; Oiho, B. 14 ; Ducarel's Bep. In 1650 the Chancellor of the Dubhy of
Lancaster was returned as Patron, in the place of the late Dean and Chapter of Wor-
cester, to whom the Rectory and Tithes belonged, but had been granted to William
Pennington Esq. and Sir George Middkton Ent. and Bart, the latter a compounded
delinquent. They were worth £270 a year, out of which the Earmers had paid 4Qs. a
year to the Poor of the Parish by order of the Dean and Chapter. There was a little

•eamrs of lUnBal 559

[The] Par.[i8h is] 4 m.[ile8] long^ [and between] 2 and 3 m.
[iles] over in y broadest place.
Leigbton^^ Amset/ [and] Berwick.* KolU.

tvt is a Free Oram, [mar] Scbool^ erected and Founded by ^tnmnwr
ArcbbP Button/ (wbo was bom here) an. [no] 1595. He **««^
endowed it w^ 20^ P*[g'] an.[num] to a Master^ and 6^*13^-4^ to
an Usher^ [which was] paid by [Matthew Hntton Esq.] j^ grand-
son and Heir to his Estate, w^^ he charged w^ these Pensions,
[by Deed Poll dated 25th Nor. 1687.] *

[The] Master and Usher are to be Nom.[inated] by y« Heir
w*^in 40 dayes; upon neglect, by y« Six Wardens and Gtovem-
onrs ; and upon their neglect for 40 dayes more, by [the] Archb.
[ishop] of York.

yican^lioiue, and under an acre of Glebe, and the whole proceeds of the Ticarage
were £20 per annum. Mr. Sichard Waller M.A. had £60 a year allowed out of Sir
George Mlddleton's compoHition, by the Gonunittee of GMdimiths' HalL — JParl. Inq,
Lamb, JAbr.

' Leighton Hall, long the seat of the funily of Middleton^ was rebuilt in the last
century by Gkorge Towneley Esq. who long resided at the House. It was sold by
his nephew.

* Amset Tower is a small quadrangular building, which from the thickness of its
walls, and the small dimensions of its doors and windows, appears to be of consider-
able antiquity. It is a single Tower, never the residence of any considerable fiunily,
but has been merely a place of temporary retreat for the neighbouring inhabitants in
case of any sudden alarm from the North.

^ Berwick Hall, of which a view is given in Whitaker's Hutorff of Mehmondihir^^
as it appears at present, is a spacious decayed HaU house of the time of Charles L but
with a strong border Tower at the East end. The large Hall, with its long table and
oaken floor, is still entire $ and over the mantel-pieoe are the arms of Bindloss im-
paling West, Lord Delaware, and the date 1620, intended for Sir Francis Bindloss,
but this part of the house will be of rather later date, as Sir Francis did not marry
the daughter of Lord Delaware until after that year. One of the bed-rooms, hung
with tapestry, was once the Chapel $ and during the Usurpation, the Service of the
Church of England was performed there with great efibet.

* The Free Grammar School, with two Chambers for the Master, and Hospital of
Jesus, in the town of Warton, was founded by Letters Patent granted on the 15th
of November in the 87th Elizabeth, to Matthew Hutton D.D. Archbishop of York,
and endowed by his Grace with a yearly sum of £46. IBs. 4d. which, up to November
1816^ had been transmitted to the Vicar of Warton by the frmily of Hutton of

560

llotttia SfKtrtemto*

at Hai^iM
of StiuM.

C^aritM.

An. [no] 1687^ Mat.[thew] Hntton nominated six Wardens and
Gov.[emor8] by Deed Poll, for y Free Gram, [mar] School, and
Ho8p.[ital] of Jesus.

ett is an Alms-house, erected by Abp. Hutton, an. [no]
1594, for six poor men of y« Parish, [one always to be of
Priest Hutton, where he was bom,] to each of whom is paid 3^*
6».8dp.[er] an.[num] by [the] Abp's Heir. [The] Vicar [is] y*
only remaining Trustee, an. [no] 1717.

40» p.[er] an.[num was left] by y« s* Abp. for Reading Prayers
in y« Alms-house, [on] Wednesd.[ay8] and Fridays. V.[ide]
Pap. Reg,

Abp. Hutton^s Hospitall is a very mean house consisting only
of three little ground rooms, w^\)ut any other convenience, and
therefore is not inhabited, yet kept in repair. Cert.[ified] 1722.

trt.[ere0t] of 208^, given to y« Poor of y« Par. [ish,] is dis-
tributed yearly among them.
Mr. Hind, late Schoolmaster of Warton, gave 20^, [the] Int.

Marske Hall in the North Biding of Yorkshire. From that date to 1825 the money
had not been paid, and on the 6th of May 1880, a Decree of the Court of Chancery
fixed and reg^idated the Charities. The property consists of the School, three cot-
tages on the site of the Alms-house, a field of 2a. lip. a field of 8a. lOp. a rent charge
of £24 on the Manor of Thornton and TJIoaby in the county of Durham, appointed
by the Will of the Founder ; a rent charge of £22. 188. 4d. on Marske in Yorkshire^
charged by Sir Timothy Hutton, son of the Archbishop, and now in the possession of
Timothy Hutton Esq. ; and £1,289. 18b. 7d. three per cent. Consol Bank Annuities,
purchased with money due to the Charities by the late John Hutton Esq. Sixty
children are now taught in the SchooL

At Priest Hutton in this Parish, was bom Matthew Hutton, successiyely Bishop
of Lichfield and Coventry, Durham, and Archbishop of York, of poor parentage, or,
as some say, a foundling. He was, howerer, not ashamed of the place of his birth,
the memory of which is perpetuated by the foundation of this Grammar School, bear-
ing this inscription in large characters orer the door —

"^imo Bomim m.)i.xnb. Seo et iSonts fLitrris. Mat. Sbiton. Spicic. Simelm."

To this respectable foundation every antiquary, at least every one occupied in illus-
trating the topography of the North of England, owes a tribute of respect, as having
produced among other Scholars of note, the indefiitigable Boger Dodswortfa, whose

•eanets of IteiiQal. 561

[erest] of w«*» for putting out some Poor Boy of y« Par[ish]
Apprenticje out of y® Par.[ish.]

Wil. [Thomas] Mansergh of Borwick^ left an Estate^ [by Will
dated 16th April 1700J of 34i p.[er] an.[num,] in defect of Heirs
of his Brothers* Body, [William and Daniel Mansergh,] (w* hap-
pened about 8 years ago,) for putting out poor Boys Apprentices.
[There are] 4 Trustees. Certif.[ied] 1722.

AHmieit*' This Chappell was
built by S' Ilob.[ert] Binlosse Bar*,
who, an. [no] 1629, did by Will bequeath 20^ p.[er] an.[num] to a
Preaching Min. [ister] here, to be nominated by the Lord or Lady
of Borwick ; w^ Pension was to be Paid out of an Estate at

fiither, Matthew DodswortK, was Chancellor to Archbishop Hntton. Boger Dods-
wtfrth was a pupil here in the years 1699 and 1600, of Mr. Mjles Dawson, after-
wards Vicar of Bolton-le-Sands, which LiTing he held from 1618 to 1625.
• This Estate now produces £125 per annum.

' The Manor of Berwick, or Berewick, was held in the fifteenth century by a feunily
named Whittington, and was purchased in the early part of the rei^ of Queen Eliza-
beth, by Sir Bobert Bindloss Xnt. a son, or near relative, of Christopher Bindloss, an
eminent dealer in Kendal cottons, Alderman of that Corporation in the year 1679,
and afterwards knighted. Sir Bobert died in 1694, seized of this Manor, and was
succeeded by his son, Bobert Bindloss Esq. Sheriff of Lancashire in 1613, afterwards
knighted, and who was succeeded at his death in 1629, by his grandson, Bobert, son of
Sir Erands Bindloss Knt. M.P. and of his wife Ciceley, daughter of Thomas West,
liord Delaware. This grandson was baptized on the 8th of May 1624, created a
Baronet in 1641, and a distinguished loyalist, being visited here by Charles U. in
1651. He died in 1688, leaving by his wife Bebecca, daughter and coheiress of
Alderman Sir Hugh Perry of London, a sole child, Ciceley, who died on the 19th of
January 1729-80, having married William Standish of Standish Esq. whose son,
Balph Standish, left issue Cecilia, eventually sole heiress of her &ther, brothers, and
nephews. She conveyed Borwick and Standish, by marriage, to William Towneley
of Towneley Esq. whose descendant, Walter Strickland of Sizergh Esq. is the repre-
sentative of the Bindloss*, the ancient Manerial owners of Borwick. — See p. 891.

The Chapel was not built by Sir Bobert Bindloss Bart, as stated in the text, but
by his grandfather, who may be styled **Bart." by a courteous prolepsis, to use a
phrase of Dr. Fuller, as this title was not conferred until 1641.

In 1650 the Parliamentary Inquisitors stated that £20 a year was given by Sir

YOL. II.] 4 C

562 ^tftte etMtkmii^

Wencedale^^ York*^^ and to continue as long aa any of y^ 8<^ S'
Bob^' name or blood shall remain L^ or Lady of Borwick. But
this Lordship being sold many years agoe^ the Pension is dropt,
and y« Chap.[el] is dropping. Vu^' Account wU of \the\ OTig.\inat\
WiU, an.[no'] 1720.

Title to Deacon's Orders from this Chap, [el J an. [no] 1711.
V.[ide] Mem.lorandum] jB.[oo*.]

CIsrtts* ISM X. J69etl0dl gaye £80 to the Poor.

Bobert Bindloss Ent. deoeued, by Will, <mt of certain Lands in Wensleydale in
Yorksliire, called Cham Hobbc^ whilst any of his name and blood were Lords of Ber-
wick i "bat the same is withdrawn and not paid." — Pari, Inq, Lamb. lAbr, toL iL

About the year 1760, there stood an ancient Domestic Chapel on a green near
the Hall, of which neither trace nor tradition existed in 1819, and which Dr. Whi-
taker doubted not had been industriously removed for obrious reasons, impljing that
the more recent owners being Boman Catholics, would not tolerate its existence.
Whitaker adds, that this Chapel being purely domestic, was unendowed, which,
firom the text, was not the case, and according to the restriction of the Canon law,
without a BelL Since the accession of the Standish fiunily, it appears that no
Senrice was performed at this Chapel; but in the latter end of Lady Bindloss'
days, the Yicar of Warton usually read Prayers and Preached here once or twice
every year, and not oftener, as the good lady chose rather to afford a good erample^
by attending regularly at the Parish Church ; but in the beginning of her husband's
Sir Bobert'B days, it had the honour of being constantly and zealously served by
Dr. Bichard Sherlock ; " whose memory," says Lucas, the historian, and a native of
Warton, "is yet precious in this Parish." — ^Whitaker*s SUtory qf SickmondMre.

' The Estate at Wensleydale is not named in the Settlement of the very large
Estates of Sir Bobert Bindloss Ent. dated the 29th of September in the l7th James,
on the marriage of his son, Francis Biadloss Esq. and Dorothy, daughter of Thomas
Chamock of Astley Esq. (whose fortune was £1,600.) Lands at Cliflbrd in the Pa-
rish of Bentham in the county of York, the Manor of Little Newton in Long Pres*
ton. Lands in Settle, Airton, Giggleswick, &c., parcel of the Manor or Forest of
Gisbum, also Messuages at Eshton in Craven, Nether Heselden, Lyttondale, and
in Cleatopp and Bibblesdale in the county of York, lately purchased by Sir Bobert
of one Bichard Pulley and Sir FranciB D'Aroy Ent., and Manors, Bectories, Lands
in Lancashire, are described and settled. Amongst the remainder men mentioned
are, Bichard, son of Bobert Bindloss, late of Stratford in the Bow deceased; Peter,
eldest son of Christopher Bindloss of Staynton in the county of Westmoreland,
yeoman; and Bobert, second son of the said Christopher Bindloss.— Xtfue. MS8.
voL xxiv.

•eanett? ^f ItenSaL 563

a;¥nBili9mL%^ Certif.[ied] 51 p.[er]
aiL.[nain^] paid by [the] Vic.[ar] out
of [the] Pens, [ion] allowed by [the] D.[ean] and Chap.[ter] of
Worcester, and mentioned in some Leases to y* Tenant of y^
Tyths. [The] Vicar used to Preach here once a month. He
scruples sometimes to pay this Pension to a distinct Curate.

> Patron Saint unknown. Value in 1884, £47. Begisten at Warton.

SilYeardale appean at an earlj period to hare been a member of Tealand Conyers
and Yealand Bedmayne, wbioh originally formed one district, called Yealand, held in
the 18th Henry HI. by Adam de Yelland ; and in the Testa de NevUC it is recorded
that Matthew de Bedmayne and Bobert de Kyneyers held the eighth part of a knight's
fee in Tehmd, of the fise of William de Lancaster, the King's tenant in chief. This
record shows the origin of the additions to the name Yealand. In the time of
Edward I. the jurors presented that the Township of Yealand, with its members,
ought to appear before the Justices Itinerant by four men and a reere, and that the
hamlet of Oalrerdale, (SHverdale,) which they say is a member of the same Township,
ought to find two of the said men, but that the Prior of Kertmell and Isolda de
Croft, Lord and Lady of the said hamlet, preyented their men from coming in that
form. The Court, in this case, discharged Isolda, who denied the truth of the state-
ment, and fined the Prior, adjudging that his men should appear before the Justices.
Isolda^ daughter of Bobert Conyers, married William de Croft, who became Lord of
Yealand Conyers, and his son, Boger Croft, marrying Elizabeth, sister and coheiress
of John, son of Adam Bedmayne of Yealand, added Yealand Bedmayne to his Estate.
This pr oper ty descended to Nicholas Croft of Balton Esq. in 1428, and his son. Sir
James Croft, left two daughters and coheiresses ; Mabel, married to Piers Legh of
Lyme Esq. and Alison, married to Geoffiry Middleton, afterwards of Leighton and
the two Yealands. His descendant, Colonel George Middleton, was created a Baronet
in 1642, and died in 1678, aged serenty-four, learing issue Mary, his sole heiress,
married to Somerford Oldfield Esq. son and heir of Sir Philip Oldfield of Somerford
in the county of Chester, whose son, George Middleton Oldfield Esq. left two daugh-
ters and coheiresses, the elder of whom was married to Albert Hodgson Esq. who
was implicated in the Bebellion of 1715, and who had Leighton Conyers as his wife's
portion. He lired at Leighton in 1740, which was conTeyed by his daughter and
ooheiresa, Ann, in marriage, to G^rge, a younger son of Charles Towneley of
Towneley Esq. His nephew and devisee, John Towneley, sold the Hall and Estate
for £28,000, to Mr. Warwick, a banker, who afterwards conveyed it by sale to Bobert
GiHowBsq.

SilTerdale is returned as a Chantry in a list of those foundations in 1548, depend-
ent upon Cartmel Monastery. In 1650 the Parliamentary Inquisitors report that
<«fi:i«m.jAi. Ohappel is fire miles from the Parish Church. It hath no maintenance

564 iftotttta Cnrtriemto.

This Chap, [el] was Built upon y^ old Foundation an. [no] 1680.

Sey.[eral] of y^ Inhab.[itants] in 1690 say they remember
Divine Service performed in it every Sund.[ayJ Forenoon and
Afternoon^ for 60 y.[ears] Backwards. Pap. Beg.

Nomination of a person to read Prayers here and at y« Alms-
house^ by [the] Feoffees or Wardens of y« Alms-lL[ouseJ an. [no]
1686. V.[ide] Pflp.itey.

at all, but y* poor Inhabitants are forced to hyre a poor Minister for twenty Nobles
per ann. and they pray for a settled maintenance for a preaching Minister, and that
the town of Lyndeth may be annexed to them, which they of Lyndeth ahoe desire.*' —
Pari, Inq. Lamb. lAbr, The Chapel was rebuilt in 1679-80, and again in 1829. The
Yicar of Warton appoints the Curate.

I conclude these Parochial Notes with the following touching and deeply interest-
ing letter addressed to Bishop Ghuitrell by the Perpetual Curate, who held, by a
ludicrous misnomer, the Living of Silyerdale ; and I am not sorry that it has been
preserred, as it cannot £m1 to awaken the gratitude of a laige body of the Clergy
in this Diocese for the improyement which has taken plaoe^ notwithstanding their
still narrow Incomes and laborious Cures : —

"My Lobd,

M I am told that our Chappelry has solicited y' Iiordship in their and
my behaJ£ It will be in Noy' next four years since I had any thing, more or less, lor
my seryices there, that so, what for want of a Salary and the considerable loss I haye
had in my personal Estate, if the poor Stipend cannot be reooyered I must be forced
for want of maintenance to leaye the place, — which I had done two years since but
purely for Charity's sake, knowing the great necessity of Diyine Seryioe there, being
so remote firom the Parish Church, besides the great difficulty of the way, both by the
daily oyerflowing of the Sea floods and the breaking up of Qrounds to the yery Bocks,
which has made the antient way not passable : These considerations haye obliged me Uy
continue so long as I haye done. All I desire is (for myself and poor Family) bread to
eat, and rayment to put on ; but the place will answer neither. I humbly begg your
Lordship so to compassionate my present Circumstances as to put me into a place
the first opporf^ that falls, where I may, with Gh>d's blessing, liye without bringing a
scandal to my Beligion, — for as I see by daily experience, the poyerty of a Clergy-
man giyeth an occasion, next to a yicious life, both to unthinking people of o' own
Com'unity, as to persons of different persuasions. The time was when I had, under
GK>d, Friends, as in particular the B* Bey***^ D' Stratford, one of y' Iip*s predeoessois,
whose seyeral Letters, of his own hand, I haye by me ; also the Ber*^ jy FentoUy
besides others of distinction ; but they haye put off mortality, and I linger on in the
Church militant. That so unless your Lordship will be graciously pleased effeotnally
to use y' power and authority in o' behalf I shall not only fidl, but what I more de-
plore, thii Chappelry will in a little time be, where I found it, bigotted to Quakerism.

Beamvs of SenDAL 565

[A] Curate [was] Licensed to this Chap, [el] an. [no] 1691.
Subs.lcription] JB. [oo*.]
2 m.[iles and] ^ from [the] Par.[ish] Church.
No Chap.[el] Warden.
No School.

r« Sb^ttlottif Bector of Winwick, gave £25, [the] Int.[ere8t €fyxtito.
of which to be given] to the Poor.

Mj Lord, mj heart is faU, and I will add no more, sare that I am jour Ldp's most
dntifull Son, and humblest Serr*.

(Signed) Jaxeb Atkhtbov."

<'To the Bight BeT"«i Father in God, Francis,

Iiord Bishop of Chester.
These to be left at Christ's College, in Oxford.
Post Payd 7*."
This Letter had not been disregarded bj the ezoellent Prelate to whom it was
addressed, and although I am unable to state the exact result of the application made
in fiiTour of this patient and pious man, who (at least) I fear was rightlj styled
** Perpetual Curate," an initiatory step was taken by the Bishop, as Mr. Joseph
Lambert, in a letter to his Lordship, dated Kendal, 12th Not. 1716, says, — ''As to
the Chappell of Silyerdale the Lease of the Sectoiy of Warton is granted to myselfe,
reserring a Bent of £110 per ann. payable to the Church of Worcester, and £80
per ann. to the Yicar of Warton. No prorision at all is made therein for the Curate
of Silverdale, nor is he once named therein. I haye however, for nigh 20 years last
past, paid £5 per ann. to that Curate, which was always allowed me in part of the
yicar*s Stipend, till Mr. Aylmer came to the Liying, which he has refus*d to allow,
and so the poor Curate gets nothing. If the Dean and Chapter of Worcester wou*d
inteipoee in this aifair, it wou*d best put an end to it.*' — QastreU's M88. BegUtr^f^
Cketter.

J^otutes in tbe ^rcj^tieatonrp
of ^tci)montr.

lanca^irt.

[eambet.] The Priory of St. Maiy
of EertmeU vas Founded by William
Mareschall in y reign of IL.[icluird] 1,
for Canona of St. Aag.[iutine,] and he
g&Te tbem his Land at Kertmdl, with
the Church and Chappells.
Val.[ue] at [the] DiB«>L[ution,]

91'.0».8i. MS-Eb-lpr."]
V.[ide] Charter of Foundation by Will.pam] Maresehall, E.

[arlj of Pembroke. Dag.[dale'8] Mon.[attu:on,} t.[oL] 2, p. SOI.

' William Huesclul tlis elder, Eirl of Pembroke^ fannded in tbe jett 11S8, ft
PrioTj at Cartmcl, dedioated to St. Mary, far Canona Begnlar of the Order of St.
Auguitine ; ftnd it was proTided that tha Priory ahould nerer be eleratad to the dig-
nity of an Abbey. The founder endowed this otiject irf bia holy seat with all hii
landa in Cartmel, which oonatitntad the Uanor, aod-incladed the right of Bahery in
the Kaen, together with the Church of Baliiar or Baliaai, and its Chapel of Bahma-
dan, the town and Cborob of KinroM in Ireland, and all that thwennto appertained.
He aftwwarda gaxe the Chnroh of Cartmel, which was oonflrmed hj Chttrtw in the
I7th John.

At the DiMolution, the Hauor of Osrtmel was annexed to the poaaeagiona of
the I>achy of I«ne«st«r; *t>d the Priory and deroeine lands were transferrad by the

ttumMUKiM, ^r. in tie Att^Seatonts of Kicl^mimB* 567

^CWLWIHSi9M9,^ n sab Cockebham, Abbey of St. Mary ; Vb.

Pounded in y Reign of Eich.[ard] 1, by Theobald Walter, ^xtmta.
for Canons of [the] Prem.[onBtraten8ian] Order, who gayey^^ the
Haye of Pyling for y' Seat; and y« Abbey of Leicester granted
y™ the place in w«b the Ho8p.[ital] of Cockersand was sdtuate to
build y™ an Abbey. MS, Eb. [or.]

Val.[ue] at [tiie] Dissol. [ution,] 157i.14-.00id,

Earls of Derby and SuBsez, the King's Commissioners, in the 82d Henry Vill.
to Sir Thomas Holcroft, and, after some mesne conyeyanoes, they were bought in
1609, by George Preston of Holker Esq. said are now held by his representatiTe, the
Bight Hon. the Earl of Burlington. Few vestiges of the Priory remain. It appean
to hare comprised an area of about twenty-two statute acres. The Priory Gktteway,
a dark, aged fitbrio, resting upon a deep Arch decorated with rib-work, still exists.
The interior of the aroh, beneath the floor, is groined. The foundations of the Frioiy
are discorerable at sereral points. The Parish Church was formerly the Church of
the Priory. A riew of it may be seen in Whitaker*s Stttory of WhaUmfy 8d ed.

The founder married in 1189, Isabel de Clare, the great heiress of Biohard, Earl of
Pembroke^ with whom he acquired that Earldom; and afterwards the Grown con-
ferred upon him the whole Province of Leinster in Ireland. He had the chief
Gkyyemment of England during the early pazt of the reign of his kinsman Henry IIL
and was no less distinguished by his wisdom in the Couneil, and valour in the field,
than by his piety and attachment to the. Church.

1 The first mention of this House is in a Charter of William de Lancaster, in the
time of Henry n. who granted to Hugh, a hermit, the place of Askelcros and Crok,
with his fishery upon the Loyne, to maintain a Hospital, under the govemmeut of a
Prior, dedicated to St. Mary, and subordinate to the Abbey of Leicester. About the
year 1190, this Priory was changed into an Abbey of Pnemonstratensian Canons,
and Theobald Walter, brotiier of Hubert Walter, Arohbiahop of Canterbury, granted
to the Prior the Moss of Pilling as the site for an Abbey ; but whether he built, or
only designed to build the Abbey at Pilling, is doubtful, as the Abbot of Leicester
gave the site^ and a licence to construct an Abbey at Cokersand, which was oonfirmed
by Pope Clement III. This was a very £ivourite Abbey and rich in pioua benefiMS-
tors, as in the 20th Edward I. it appeared in a quo wmrramto that the Abbot daimed
certain feudal privileges in ninety-one places. In point of revenue it ranked the
third amongst the Religious Houses of Lancashire. I have in my poseesaion a veUum
Boll containing the Rental of this Abbey, made by James Skypton, the Oellsrer, in
1501, from which it appears that the House had t:^9 hundred and ten teusnta, in
seventy-eight places, in the counties of Lancaster and York. Part of the rent was
paid in kind, by nearly all the tenants.

568 ifUrtftfA CwMtMii^

Siurendred by [the] Abbot and 22 Monks. MS. Cott.[on.']
V.pde] Dug. [dale's] Man.lasHcan,] v.[ol.] 2, p. 681.

Pope Clement^ an. [no] 1190^ granted y* tbis s^ be called the
Mon.[a8tery] of St. Mary of y^ Order of Premons.[traten8esJ at
Cockersand. I>ug.[dale,'] y.[ol.] 2, p. 686.

[The] Priory of Cockersand in Lanc.[ashireJ founded by Ba^
nnlph Meschines, yal.[ne] 228^. Steph. t.[o1.] 2, p. 10^ out of
Beynerus, p. 209.

*t. 9ug. S^[ <9MSN4!I219SF£B»^ nbab Ulybbston. This Priory or
IPrCnr »0<j. Jj^ HospitaU of St. Mary was founded by WiU.[iam] de Lan-

At the DiBsolntion, the Abbej oontamed twenty-two religious, fifty-seren
yants, and was worth, according to Dugdale, £167. 14s. per annum, and according
to Speed, £228. 58. 4d.

This Abbej, by the capricious fiiTour of the King, was restored after its Dissolu-
tion, but only existed two years, when it was again dissolved and leased by the
Crown to John and Bobert Gkurdner of Pilling, at a rent of £78. 6s. 8d. per annum ;
and in the 35th Heniy Vlil. the site was granted to John Kitchen of Hatfield in
Herts, afterwards of Pilling Hall Esq. M.P.

Leland mistook the Order of the House. He says, " thens to Cokersand, an Abbey
of OiHercieHseSf about half a mile o£E^ standing yeri blekely an object to all Wynddes.
One William of Lancaster was Founder of that House about King Henri the 2
G>|rme." — Itineroiy, toL y. p. fo. 84, p. 88.

^ The Priory of Coningeshered was originally an Hospital supposed to hare been
founded by Ghibriel de Penington Knt. for the relief of poor, decrepit, indigent per-
sons, and lepers, with the consent of William de Lancaster, Lord of the Manor of
Ulyerston and Kendal. The founder gave the Hospital to GK)d and St. Mary ; and
William de Lancaster endowed it with all the Lands on both sides of the road which
leads from Bardsea to UlTerston, and from the great road to Trinkeld to the sea-
banks, together with the Church of Ulyerston, and its Chapeli : and the Monks, in
their pious benerolenoe, oonyerted the Hospital into a Prioiy of the Order of St.
Augustine, and took the charge of the poor, and administered their possessions. Li
this new management, howeyer, no injury was done to the objects of the first charity,
who continued to be proyided for in the House. Other additions were subsequently
made to their possessions. In the 27th Henry Vlll. the Priory of Conishead fell
among the smaller Houses. At this time there was a Prior and seyen Canons, so that
they had declined in numbers, as in the year 1200 they had been restricted by the
Monks of Fumess to thirteen. The goods, chattels, lead, and timber were sold for

ttliniMttvitu, ^r* <it t|^ atd^Beaeows of ilic|tiiimB« 569

caster for Brethren of the Aug. [ustinian] Order^ who gave them the
Church of Ulverstou^ with its Chappells^ and 40 Acres of Land.

This Priory stood in y« Parish of Ulverston, about 2 short m.
[iles] from y« town, but there are hardly any ruins of it to be per-
ceived at present, an. [no] 1722.

It was founded in K.[ing] Steph'" time : after y« Diss.[olution,]
by H.[enry] 8, this Priory was given to L<^ Paget for some signall
Services done to y« Crown, who gave it to y« Family of y« Dod-
dings, and is lately come to Mr. Braddyll, who married j^ Heiresse
of that Fam.[ily.] Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1722.

Val.[ue] at [the] Dissol.[ution,] 97^. 0^- 2^. MS. JB*.[or.]

£838. 6«. Sid. and the Church of Conishead was demolished, but in 1823 its site was
disooyered, and it appears firom the remains of sereral pillars, and other fragments, to
hsre been of considerable magnitude.

In the 80th Henry YIII. the House, its demesnes and Manor, were leased by the
Grown to Thomas, second Lord Monteagle ; and in the 1st Edward YI. were con-
rejed to the Bight Hon. William Paget, and his heirs, to be held of the King bj
military service. The year foUowiog, with the King's licence, he transferred his lease
to John Machell and William his son, who, in the succeeding year, sold the site of the
Priory to WOliam Sandys of Colton Hall Esq. His son, Francis Sandys Esq. dying
in the 25th Elizabeth, bequeathed the Manor of Conishead Priory to his two sisters
in half blood — Maigaret, the wife of Miles Podding Esq. and Barbara, the wife of
Miles Philipson Esq. ; but the share of the latter was subsequently obtained by pur-
chase^ in the 7th Charles I. by Gkorge Dodding Esq. grandson of Miles Dodding.
His descendant, Sarah, daughter and heiress of Miles Dodding Esq. conveyed this
large Estate to her husband, John, son and heir of Thomas Braddyll of Portfield in
the Parish of Whalley Esq. who died on the 19th of April 1744, aged seventy-eight,
and whose grandson, Thomas Braddyll Esq. dyiog s.p. on the 26th of July 1776,
devised it to his cousin. Colonel Wilson Gale, Groom of the Bedchamber, who
assumed the surname of Braddyll, and died in 1818. He was the eldest son of John
Gkde of Whitehaven Esq. by his wife, Sarah, daughter and coheiress of Christopher
Wilson of Bardsea Hall Esq. who married Margaret, second daughter of John Brad-
dyll Esq. and Sarah Dodding. ^e was succeeded by his son, the present Thomas
Siohmond Ghde Braddyll Esq. laeut. Colonel of the Coldstream Begiment of Foot
Guards.

The Priory was re-edified in the middle of the eighteenth century ; but in 1821 the
whole was taken down and restored in a splendid style of Elizabethan architecture,
under the direction of Wyatt.

Whitaker observes, with his usual force of description, that the situation of the
Priory was most useful for the purposes of hospitality, and that many a shivering and

VOL. II.] 4 D

570 iUrtftto eentrfemto.

V.[ide] Confirmation of all Grants to this Priory by Edfr.[ard]
2^. Dug[dale'B] M<m.lastic(m,] v.[ol.] 2, p. 434.

ffb. €iittt. ^^ anUMTSSf^ IN Dalton Parish. This Abbey of St. Maiy
^^ was Founded by Stephen, E.[arl] of Boleign, (afkerw.[ard8]
K.[ing] Stephen,) an. [no] 1127, [and] 26 H.[enry] 1, in a place
of y^ Vale called Bekangesgill; or (as another old Book hath it)
an. [no] 1124, in Aundimesse in a place called Tnlket, firom

half-drowned adventurer oyer the Sands would mourn the time, when these hoe-
pitable doors were dosed for eyer against distress and want. The situation is beau-
tiful, but in no degree characteristic of the features which were usually chosen for
monastic retirement. For here is no deep yalley, no gloomy sedusion from the
cheerful riews of surrounding Nature ; but a spacious and fertile domain, yvried bj
alternate elerations and depressions, together with woods of fine growth and great
extent, affording partial yiews of the great Bay (of Moreoombe,) and the mountains
which surround it. After this glowing eulogy, the writer, with a fond partiality for
Whalley, which neyer forsook him, imagined that the charms of Fortfield might
haye reasonably occasioned a struggle iu the proprietor who abandoned it, eyen for
Conishead.

' At Domesday Suryey, Fumess was in the possession of the Crown, and was after-
wards awarded to Stephen, Earl of Bologne^ who conferred the Lordship and the
greater part of the district on the Abbey of St. Mary, the Monks of which had
remoyed from their temporary abode at Tulket, to a deep seduded yalley, about
a mile to the South of Dalton, called the Bekansgill, or "Yale of Nightshade,"
from a plant found here, a branch of which is engrayen on the andent Seal of the
Fraternity of Fumess. The Abbey was founded on the nones of July in the year
1127, by a body of Cistercian Monks, with Ewan de Albrinds, their first Abbot,
at their head. The Brotherhood were affiliated with the Monastery of Sayign^ in
Normandy, and on their arriyal in England in 1124, seated themsdyes in a mo-
nastic foundation at Tulket near Preston, until this site was obtained and the Sanc-
tuary built. Of the contention respecting precedence between this Abbey and that
of Wayerley in Sussex, also of the Cistercian Order, the annalist of Wayerley has
preseryed a minute account. Fumess was eyentually reconciled to the Mother
Church of Sayign^, and thenceforth became Cisterdan, but it was determined that
the Abbot of Fumess should haye precedence through all the houses of demosyna in
England, and the Abbot of Wayerley in the Chapters of the Abbots through
England, with a superiority oyer the whole Order.

The Charter of King Stephen, which confarred immense possessions and almost
regal power upon the Abbots, was confirmed by Henry I. and Henry 11. by Bichard L
John, and Henry m. ; and subsequent Monarchs granted new priyilages, and ooa-

fHonMtttkn, ^t« fti tj^e ArrlBeaeimrs of ViMpmta* 571

whence it was^ 3 years after^ removed to Bekankesgill. [It was]
surrendred by [the] Abbot and 30 monks to H.[enry] 8.

Val.[ue] at [the] Dissol. [uUon,] 8051. 16". 05^. MS. jB6.[or.]
This Abbey had two [three] Cells of Monks in Ireland,^ and
was j^ Mother of Caldra,^ Swyneshead,^ Wethney,' and Bussin^
[all] R§l.[igiou8] Houses planted by her. y.[ide] Dug.[dale^s]
Mon.[asticon,'] v.[oL] 1, p. 705.

It is situated in a Valley about a mile fro Dalton.

ilnned fonaer grants, to this House. In magnitude and opulence it was the next to
Fountains, wliich was the most splendid establishment belonging to the Cistercians
in England.

' Erynach, founded in 1126, by a King of Ulster, and afterwards translated by
John de Courcy to Ynes in 1180, and subjected to Fumess. BeUo Beoco, founded
and endowed by Walter de Lascy, who transferred the Estate, by Licenoe of Edward
m. to the Abbey of Eumess. And Arkel, founded by Theobald Walter, Butler of
Ireland, and by him given to Fumess.

' "Calder, or Galdra^ in Copdand Deanry, 8 miles from Egremond, and 8 miles
from Whitehayen, Co. Cumb., of the Cisterc. Order, founded by Banulph Meschines
an. 1184, who gave thereunto the Land of Caldra with its app^ in which the Abbey
stood, to which were appropriated afterwards the Churches of Beckermet, viz. S^
Bridget's and S* John's. The Abbey was situated in a yalley, dose by the Biyer Cal-
der, whence it had its name. In 1722 the ruins indicated that it had been a spa-
cious structure. YaL at Diss. 6(y . 09* . 03i<i." — Dug. Mon, y. 1, p. 774. Old J2ey.
If.If. and MS. M. Bp. Oastrell's MS. NotUiOj p. 195, in the RegiHry^ Chuter.

^ Swineshead in Lincolnshire was founded in 1134 by Bobert Ghresley, and the
lands confirmed to the Church of St. Mary and the Monks there, by Henry 11.
Valued at the Dissolution at £159. 19s. 10|d. per annum.

' Wethney is probably meant for Whittem Abbey in Ghdloway, the Abbot being a
Baron of Man, and holding lands there on condition of attending the Kings and
Lords, of that Island.

* The Abbey of St. Mary of Bushen in the Isle of Man was founded by Olaye^
Lord of Man and the Isles, and giyen by him in 1134 to the Abbot of Fumess as a
nursery to the Church ; hence the Abbots had a yoioe in the iqppointment of the Ab-
bot of Bushen, and it has been thought the right, at one time, of electing the Bishop,
being a sort of Chapter to his Diocese. It consisted of the Abbot, who was an Ec-
clesiastical Baron, and twelye Monks. Some of the Kings of Man were buried at
Fumess.— JBw^ory of the Isle o/Man^ pp. 196-226, 4to. 1783.

According to Dugdale, the reyenue of the Abbey of Fumess at the Dissolution in
1687, was £805. 16s. 5d. per annum, but according to Speed, £766. 7b. lOd. exdusiye
of the woods, meadows, pastures, and fisheries, retained by the Monks in their own
hands, and which enabled them to exercise, notwithstanding the erils of the monastic

572 iftotMa Cesttrtetwfo*

The mediety of j* Manour of Ulyerston was given to this Mou.
[astery] by y« Pounder. MS. Eb,[or.']

The Ruins of this Mon. [astery] appear at this day very stately
and magnificent. The Demain lands are worth near 1000^ P-[^]
an.[numj and belong to S' Tho.[mas] Lowther of Holker, and y«
other Estates are very considerable. Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1722.

This Mon. [astery] was first Instituted after y^ Order of Sayigni.
Steph. v.[ol.] 2, p. 254, otU of Neustria pia, p. 688.

system, a wise and almost prinoelj hospitalitj, the loss of which must have been
bitterly felt by the whole district.

In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the site and demesne lands of the Abbey were
bought by John Preston of Preston Patrick Esq. who made this Abbey his future
residence. — See pp. 511-618. From this time it continued in the Preston £Eunily,-
and was held in 1674, by Sir Thomas Preston, being then worth £3,000 a year. Sir
Thomas haying no issue, becoming a Boman Catholic, and entering into a Beligi-
ous Order, and that " one of the meanest," according to Dr. Leigh, (Nat. HiH. of
Lane. p. 28,) granted away all his Estate to superstitious uses, to the prejudice of
Thomas Preston Esq. the heir, whom he had fidled to penrert from Protestantism.
This being known, after an expensiye Suit in the Exchequer, the Ghrant to Supersti-
tious Uses was ayoided, and the Estates fell to the Crown, Charles II. granting them
in lease to the said Thomas Preston Esq. for seren years, at an annual rent of £400.
James II. afterwards gave the reversion of the said Abbey possessions to Bomish
purposes; but this Ghrant was also annulled, and the Inheritance being reinrested in
the Crown, a lease of it was again granted by William and Mary, in 1689, to the
said heir-at-law. Katherine, daughter and heiress of the said Thomas Preston Esq.
married Sir William Lowther Bart, who died in April 1705, leaving a son and heir,
Sir Thomas Lowther Bart, a minor, whose rights were again jeopardised and not
fixed until George I. by an Act of Parliament, conveyed the Fee of the Abbey and its
Lands to him, and his heirs. In 1719 the Park contained Bed, Fallow, and White
Deer ; and the ruins of the Abbey are described as being very considerable and mag-
nificent. — Lane. M8S.

The ruins comprise the Conventual Church, which is two hundred and seventy-five
feet from East to West, the Chapter House, which is sixty feet by forty-five, and the
Hall and School-house, occupying altogether about sixty-five acres. The arohiteotore
is Norman and Early English. — ^Beck*s BiH. oflSimess Abbey.

What a wonderful thing an Abbey is! Here in the lonely solitude a building
equal in size and magnificence to some of our Cathedrals, is raised to the honour of
Ok>d ! What an astonishing fact, that any set of men should raise thia mighty Tem-
ple in the wilderness, and devote their lives in performing sacred services j and how
still more astonishing that, when once built, any generation of men should be found
«o barbarous as to destroy it ! — Grresley's Conitton Hall, p. 88> 1846.

tUmMUxitn, ict. in tl^t Atd^Beaeonts of ilic|tiioii9« 573

BAMftftSbSi^^ This Priory of St. Mary was Founded by 9ru mien,
Boger^ E. [arl] of Poictiers^ who made it a Cell to St. Martin *^"*^'
de Sagio or Sayes in France, and gave them y^ Church of St.
Mary at Lancaster, and part of y^ Town from y^ old wall to y^
Prest-gate, and y« Grove as farre as Freibrok. The ChappeUs
of Caton, Gressingham, Overton, and Stalmine belonged to it
an. [no] 1246.

It was ordered by Pope Innocent an. [no] 1226, that y« Abbey
of Sayes should receive 2 parts of y« Tyth Com in y« Parish of
Lancaster, and of Pulton and Biscopheym ; and [that] y« 8^ part
thereof sh^ belong to y« Abbey of Cockersand.

Afterwards this Priory Alien was given to y^ Mon.[astery] of
St. Bridget of Syon, Founded by H.[enry] 5. V.[ide] MS. Eb.
[or.] Dug.[dale^s] Mon.lasticon^ v.[ol.] 1, p. 566.

* Soon after the Conqiifist, Boger, Earl of Foictiers, founded a Prioiy here, which
he annexed to the Abbey of St. Martin of Sees in Normandy, having endowed it
with the Churches of Lancaster, Heysam, Cotgreaye, Gropill, Wikelay, Croston, the
mediety of Aydeton, Thydewell, F^eston, Kyrkham, Mellynges, and Bolton. He
gare in Agmnndemes, the Church of Fulton, and diyers Tithes and Lands, to the
honour of God and St. Mary, for proyision for the Monks who celebrated in the
same Monastery so freely; that the Monks, and their men, should perform no secu-
lar seryioe to him, or his successors, at auy time; and that none of his heirs
should haye power oyer them, either to take away any thing, or to impose any cus-
tom upon them.

This Chiirter was confirmed by King John, at York, March 26th 1200.

After the defection of Boger, Earl of Foictiers, his possessions being confiscated
were conferred upon the Earls of Chester, and Banulph, Earl of Chester, confirmed
to the Friory the donations of Earl Boger. Afterwards, Boger de Montbegon added
the Chapel of Ouersingham ; Waren de Waleton, the Fatronage of Ecclesdene ; John
de la Ware, the Adyowson of Croston ; and Sir Boger Gemet of Halton, the Adyow-
8on of Eccleston. GkofBrey de Balista and William le Stalmyne resigned all their right
in the Chapel of Stalmyne. Li 1246 the Archdeacon of Bichmond granted a Licence
Id the Friory for the appropriation of Lancaster Church, and the Chapels named in the
text, together with the mediety of the Church of Foulton, and the Chapel of Bispham.
Li 1414 Henry Y. suppressed the Alien Monasteries, and this Benedictine Friory was
giyen to the Abbey of Sion, to which it remained a Cell untU the Dissolution. Lx
1540 it was granted to Sir Thomas Holoroft, but passed shortly afterwards to John
Bigmaden. — See p. 481.

574 0Mma eeftvfett»te*

itoitaittxn of ^M Z %90S€9LSbS&i} This Ho8p.[ital] was Founded hj K.

jbtMMttuattf §lg^ [ing] John, and consisted of one Master^ one Chaplain^ and
nine poor people^ whereof three were Lepers, the other sound,
every one of which had one Loaf a day, weighihg the eighth part
of a Stone, and Pottage three dayes in the week.

This Hospitall was, by John, Duke of Lancaster, granted to
the Priory of Seton in Cumberland. y.[ide] Dug. [dale's] Man.
[asticon,'] v.[oL] 1, p. 482.

Sri. tfK van! AJK*^ This was a CeU to Diurham. Bich.[ard] Fitz
ISS Roger granted to God, St. Mary, and St. Cuthbert, and the
Prior and Monks of Dunelm, all his Land at Lytham, (viz. 2
Carucats,) together w^ y^ Church there, to build thereon a House
of their own Order, the Prior and Monks of which should be
appointed and removed by the said Convent at their pleasure, w^
Grant of 2 Carucats of Land was Confirmed to them by K.[ing]
John. MS. Eb.lor.] V.[ide] Charter of Edw.lard] 8. Dug.
[dale's] Mon.\a8ticon,] v.[ol.] 1, p. 499.

[The] Cell at Lethome val.[ued at] 6(fi. MS. L.

^ King John, when Earl of Morton, founded thu Hospital $ and in the, 4ih Heniy
m. the lepers were allowed pasture for their cattle, fuel, and timher for their build-
ings in the King's Forest of Loundesdale. The Hospital was yery poor, and the
allowance per day of one pound twelve ounces of bread, to each indiTidual, with pot-
tage on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, was not veiy luxurious.

Henry, (not John,) Duke of Lancaster, by Charter dated Preston, 1357, granted
this little Hospital to the Prioiy of Seton, otherwise Lekelay in Cumberland, which
was too poor to support its Prioress and Nuns. In this Grant he included the
Chantry of the Hospital, if his Burgesses of Lancaster would agree to it. The pos-
sessions of Seton were yalued at the Dissolution at £12. 12s. 0^. per «.T*niim.

Five burgages in Lancaster, and sixteen acres of land called the "Nun's Field,'* of
the annual value of £8. 5d. were sold by the Crown, in 1556, to John Dodding.

The discovery of a Crossed Tomb-stone, and several human skeletons, in 1811,
fixes the site of this Hospital at the Eastern extremity of St. Leonard's Qate^
Lancaster.

' The Priors of Lytham were whoUy dependent on the Parent House of Durham,
and were removable at the Will of the Priors of Durham, who were the Manarial
owners of Lytham from the twelfth century. Pope Eugenius, by solicitation.

ttlmMUtUnf ict. in t|e fItelBeaconrs of iliclmoiiS* 575

SlSS2r<9N*> [A] Mon.[a8ter7] of Franciscans^ Grey SSUm.ftm.

Friers, or Friers Minor. The principall Founder of w^
wasEdw.[ard,] son to H.[enry] 8; Contrib. [utors,] S'Eob.[ert]
Hollancf, and one Preston. Lei. [and's] Itin.

ftStSTAN*^ Adjoining to j^ yic.[arage] House are y^ nUaUm.
Ruins of a building w^ seems to have been a small Belig.

issned a Bull in 1443, by which the Prior of Lythom and his siiooesson, were znade
perpetual Priors ; and in the 22d Henry TI. Letters Patent containing a pardon for
application to the Papal See, operated in confirmation of the Bull. The connection,
howeyer, did not absolutely cease to exist, for the possessions of the two Houses
were rained together, and the site, cell, and domains of Ljtham, were granted in the
2d Maiy to Sir Thomas Holcroft, as parcel of the possessions of the Priory of Dur-
ham. Sir John Holcroft sold the Manor and Adrowson in 1006, to the ancestor of
the present owner, Thomas Clifton of Lytham Esq. — See p. 447.

1 Preston had two Monastic Institutions ; first, an Hospital, dedicated to St. Mary
Magdalen, mentioned in the Lincoln Taxation of 1291. This Hospital, surrounded
by a moat, stood in the Maudlands on the eminence now occupied by Tulketh Hall,
and was used as a temporary residence for the Cistercian Monks while their magnifi-
cent Abbey of Fumess was building. It was abandoned in 1127. The other was a
IVandscan Conyent of Grey Friars, built by Bdmund, Earl of Lancaster, son of
Henry HE. in 1221, to which Sir Bobert Holland, who impeached Thomas, Earl of
Lancaster, of High Treason was a considerable benefactor, and was buried here.
Sir Bobert was the Founder of the Priory of Holland. Leland mentions that *' the
Grey Freeres college in the North- West side of the Toune of Preston in Amundrenes,
was sett in y* soils of a gentilman caullid Prestun, dwellinge in y* Toune selfe of
Prestun, and a Brother or Sonn of his confirmed the first graimt of the site of y^
House ; and one of these two was after a great man of possessions, and Yioount of
Gurmaston, as I hard say, in Ireland. Diyers of the Prestons were buryed yn this
House, and the Shirbums and Daltuns, gentilmen.'* — IHn, yoL iy. p. 22.

In the 82d Henry Yin. the site of the Monastery was granted to Thomas Holcroft
Esq. It was the property and residence of Oliyer Breres Esq. a descendant of the
Breres' of Hammerton in Bowland, and Becorder of Preston in the time of Queen
Elisabeth* It was aft;erwards used as a prison until the year 1790 ; and is now diyi-
ded into cottages. The shell of the Chapel may still be traced.

1 This building at Warton was the ancient Parsonage, and is now a yery picturesque
ruin, of which enough remains to proye that it was suited to the opulence of its inha-
bitant. It does not appear to haye been calculated for defence, but in other respects
greatly resembles the tower-built Manor-houses of the North, haying a thorough

1

576 jtoMtia Centrtnwfe*

[ious] House^ probably a Cell to the Priory of Worcester, thd not
mentioned by Dugdale. Vic'' Aaf- 1720.

Probably here was a Chantry, there being lands here called
Chantry Lands, and an Easter Due called Wax-penny^ and a
tenure called Lamp4ight. Certif.[ied] an. [no] 1722.

lobby, with arched doon to the offices, and a yery spaciotiB hall with piked gables,
gothic windows, and in the South end a kind of ox-eje light, which appears to have
been £uhionable in Ecclesiastical halls, and of which a fine specimen lately appeared
in the remains of the Bishop of Winchester's once magnificent Hall in Southwark.
Out of some other of the remains has been patched up the present Vicarage, suited to
the reduced condition of the benefice, but presenting a melancholy contrast to the
kitchen and hall which, in better days, probably feasted erery class of the Panahion-
ers in succession. — Whitaker's JZw^. of Ricikmondahire^ toI. ii. p. 293.

It is worthy of obserration that the Vicar who informed Bishop Ghwtrell that the
ruins of the old Parsonage-house were probably those of a Chantry, was the Bey.
William Aylmer D.D. of a good fiimily in Hertfordshire, who, whilst a Student at
Oxford, was seduced by some Popish emissaries, and afterwards became Professor of
Diyinity at Douay : but upon mature deliberation he discoTered and repented of his
error, and returning to his true and indulgent mother, the Church of England,
preached a recantation Sermon (which was published) on 2 Peter, ii 1, before Tal-
bot, Bishop of Oxford, on the 80th of September 1713, and haying formerly studied
Physic, as well as Diyinity, became yery seryioeable to his Parishioners. He was
Vicar of Warton £rom 1714 to 1733.

INDEX

TO VOL. II. PARTS H. AND III.

<<Aaram Chappel," 485.

Abbot, Archbishop, 413.

Abingdon's ** Antiqoities of the Church
of Worcester," 621.

Abram, John, of Abram, 250.

Abram HaU, 248, 24Q,

Abram, Mrs. Mary, 256, 257.

Aeorington, 304.

Aecrington NoTa, 304.

Achetnn, 161.

Acton, Mabilla de, 161.

Adba]^?^!^^ John de, 250.

Addison, Jonn, 404.

Adlington Hall, 392.

Adlington, Peter, Chantry Priest, 312.

Admarsh, in Bleasdale Forest, 437; de-
scription of the neighbourhood, 438.

Aghton, Elizabeth, wife of John Bold,
194.

Aghton, Johanna, wife of Bamaby Kyt-
chin, 194.

Aghton, John, 194.

Aghton, Richard de. 194.

Aghton, Sir Richard, 194.

Aighburgh Hall, 170.

Ainsworth, Mrs. Alice, 223.

Albemarle, George, Duke of, 459, 509.

Albemarle, Monk, Duke of, 317, 507.

AlbrineiB, Ewan de. Abbot of Fnmess,
670.

Aleancoats, 327.

Alcock, Mr. 206.

Aleock, Mr. John, 206.

Aldersey, Mr. Samuel, Rector of Wigan,
244,247.

Aldingham, ^4.

Aldingham HaU, 495.

Aldingham, Rector of, 416.

Alforde, Francis, 208.

Alfred, or Aufrey, 328.

AUdncoats, 326.

Allen, Cardinal, 400.

Allen, George, of Rossall, 458.

Allen, John, 458.

Allen, William, D.D. 458.

AUerton Hall, 166; some account of, 167.

AUet, William, 171.

Almoner, the, of Lathom, 202.

Alston, Mrs. of Ribchester, 472.

Altar, a Roman, conyerted into a font,
425.

Altcar, 163.

Altcar Hall, 163, 164.

Altham, 306.

Altham, Simon de, 307.

Alverthorpe, in Yorkshire, 313.

Alretham, Chapel of, 307.

AlTCtham, Hugh de, 306.

AJyetham, John de, 306.

AlTCtham, William, Lord of, 286.

Ambrose, Alice, daughter of John, and
wife of WOliam Latus of Whiteha-
Ten, 441.

Ambrose, Daniel, D.D. Rector of Meth-
ley, and Mary his wife, 536.

Ambrose, Elisabeth, daughter of James,
541.

Ambrose Esther, daughter of John, and
wife of John Dodgson, 541.

Ambrose, Isaac, Vicar of Garstang, 536.

Ambrose, John, Esq. and Dorothy his
wife, 536.

Ambrose, Margaret, 541.

Ambrose, Mr. Isaac, Vicar of Preston,
462.

Ambrose, Mr. John, of Lowick, 535 ; some
account of his charities, 536, 539,
540, 541, 542.

Ambrose, Mr. Peter, agent for sequestra-
tions, 169, 202.

Ambrose, Mr., Vicar of Childwall, 169.

Amherst, John, of Gray's Inn, 400; Eli-
zabeth his wife, relict of Richard
Higginson, 400.

Amoundemess, Deanery of, 398.

Anderton, Christopher, 382, 409, 410.

Anderton, Hugh, of Clayton, 282.

Anderton, Mr. James, 169, 245, 290, 38*2.

Anderton, James, of Clayton, 546; Eliza-
beth his wife, 546.

Anderton, James, of Euxton Esq. 380,
381, 384.

Anderton, James, of Lostock, 408.

Anderton, Mr., of Birchley, 165.

Anderton, Sir Charles, Bart. 174.

Anderton, Sir Hugh, 381.

4 E

578

INDEX.

Anderton, Rev. J. H. 321.

AndertoD, William, Esq. 381, 382.

Anderton, William Ince, 381.

Antley, Lower, 304.

Antoninus Caracalla, 343.

Appeltree, William de. Commissary, 323.

Archolm cum Cawood, 484.

Arden, John, of Upton W^arren Esq. 177.

Ardeme, John de, 454.

Ardeme, Marsery de, 406.

Arlecden, in Cumberland, 633; an ap-
propriation of the See of Chester,
633.

Armetriding, Hugh, of Whittle le Wood,
Yeoman, 386.

Armetridinr, Hey. Thomas, Vicar of
Lejland, 381, 383, 385; Margaret
his widow, 382, 385.

Armistead, Mr. William, 447.

Armstrong, Rot. Mr., King's Preacher,
516.

Amset Hall and Tower, 669.

Arran, Lord, 180.

Arundel, Lord, of Wardonr, 288.

Arundel, Thomas, Esq. 288.

Ascroft, Henry, 199.

Ashbumham, John, Earl of, 201; Lady
Henrietta Bridget, his daughter, 201,
258.

Asheton, Alice, 369.

Asheton, Arthur, of Clegg HaU, 636.

Asheton, Edmund, M.A. Rector of Mid-
dleton, 636.

Asheton, Major General, 366.

Asheton, Mary, daughter of Edmund,
of Methley, Esq. 536.

Asheton, Mr. 330.

Asheton, Mr. Nicholas, 303.

Asheton, of Clegg Hall, originally of
Bamfurlong, 260.

Asheton, Ralph, of Great Lever, 287,
328,355.

Asheton, Sir Edmund, 286, 289, 302, 303,
317, 339, 340.

Asheton, Sir Edward, 279.

Asheton, Sir William, of Littlewood, 369.

Ashton, Ann, daughter of Richard, 363.

Ashton in Makerneld, 267; constituted
a parish and rectory, 268; St. Tho-
mas's constituted a vicarage, 268.

Ashton, Mr., Curate of Haslingden, 334.

Ashton, Samuel. 206.

Ashton, Sir William, 363.

Ashton, Thomas, of Croston, 363.

Ashton, Thomas, of Hestbank, 649.

Ashurst, Thomas, of Ashnrst Esq. 268.

Ash worth, John, Schoolmaster of Cros-
by, 220.
Askew, Dr. Anthony, 486.
Askew, John, 626, 637.
Askew, Margaret, wife of Judge Fell and

Georre Fox, 637.
Askew, Air. 604.
Askew, Rev. Henry, 486.
Asland river, stote of in 1660, 362.
Aspden, John, Minister of Burnley, 300.
Aspinall, John, of Standen Hall, Esq.

388.
Aspinwall, Edward, Esq. and Eleanor

his wife, 167.
Aspinwall, John, 177.
Aspinwall, Mr. Peter, 199.
Aspinwall Mr. William, 176.
Aspul, Ann, of Hindley, widow, 257.
Asshawe, Anne, daurater of Thomas,

wife of Sir John Itadclyffe, 464.
Asshawe, Roger, of Hall o'th' Hill, 464.
Assheton, Arthur, 313.
Assheton, Lady Elisabeth, 303.
Assheton, Lady, of Downham, 329, 330.
Assheton, Mary, daughter of Sir Richard,

294.
Assheton, Radcliffe, son of Ralph, Esq.

291.
Assheton, Ralph, 303, 329.
Assheton, Rev. Abdias, 309, 316.
Assheton, Richard, Esq. of Downham,

328.
Assheton, Richard, of Cuerdale, Esq.

328
Assheton, Sir Raphe, 307» 308^ 317, 321,

328, 330, 359.
Assheton, Thomas, Esq. founds a School

at Bolton le Sands, 549.
Assheton, Thomas, of Croston, 178.
Assheton, William, of Downham, Esq.

328,329.
Astley HaU, 366.
Astley, John, 279.
Aston, Edward, B.A. 481.
Atherton Hall, 183, 234.
Atherton, Henrietta Maria, 189.
Atherton, Henry, 266.
Atherton, John, Esq. 182, 226, 231, 233.
Atherton, John Joseph, 222.
Atherton, Miss Eleanora, of Keraall Cell

265.
Atherton, Mr. Henry, Curate of Holling-

fare, 239.
Atherton, Ralph, 268.
Atherton, Richard, 231, 264; Eleanor

Ireland his wife, 231.

INDEX.

579

AthertoD, Robert Vernon, 189, 231.

Atherton, Sir John, Knt. 182.

Atherton, William, son of Sir William,
293.

Atkinson, Anthony, 404.

Atkinson, Edwards, 452.

Atkinson, J. of Torrer, 542.

Atkinson, James, Curate of Silrerdale,
565.

Atkinson, Peter, 407.

Atkinson, Richard, 521.

Atkinson, Richard, Incumbent of Ulver-
ston, 536.

Atkinson, Richard, of EUel Grange, Esq.
404.

Atkinson, Sir Roger, Reader of Torver,
542.

Anghton, 161, 552, 554.

Aughton Hall; 162.

Auffustine, Samt, 298.

Aylmer, Mr. of Warton, 565.

Ajlmer, Rev. William, D.D. some ac-
count of him, 576.

Aytock, Robert, 297.

Bacon's, Lord, character of Dr. Urswick,
544.

Bagerley or Baguley, Mr. William, 230.

Bagott, Alexander, Curate of Stalmine,
445.

BaUton,' William, 411.

Baines, Right Hon. M. Talbot, 450.

Bains, Mr. 457.

Bains, Mr. James, of Poulton, 459,460.

Ba!der8tone,281.

Balderstone, Ellen, wife of William, 281.

Balderstone Hall, 282.

Balderstone, William, de, 281.

Baldwin, Rev. Gardner, of Leyland, 380.

Baldwin, Rev. John, Rector of North
^ Meol8,374.

Baldwin, Rev. Rigbye, 374.

Baldwin, Rev. Thomas, 380.

Baldwin, William, Gent. 275a

Baleman, John, 550.

Balista, Geoffrey le, 573.

Ball, Richard, 195.

Bambourg', John de, Presbyter, 261.

Bamfurlong Hall, 248, 249.

Banaster, Henry, 363.

Banaster, Henry, of Hackinge, 364.

Banastre, Alice, daughter and heiress of
James, wife of Sir John de lAngton,
243, 289, and Sir John Byron, 271.

Banastre, Anne, wife of Thomas Fleet-
wood Esq. 368.

Banastre, Christopher, of Bank, 355, 359,

368,381,382.
Banastre, Dorothy, wife of Henry Mal-

ham, 339.
Banastre, Elizabeth, daughter of Chris-
topher, of Bank, wife of Captain

Parker, 382.
Banastre family, 242.
Banastre, Heniy, late of Hackney, 364.
Banastre, Maivaret, daughter of Thomas

of Bank, 368.
Banastre, Mary and Isabella, 306, 337.
Banastre, Nicholas, of Altham, Esq. 306,

337.
Banastre, Richard, son of John, 306.
Banastre, Robert, 243, 262, 271, 282,

389.
Banastre, Sir Robert, 244, 289.
Banastre, Sir Thomas, 271.
Banastre, Thomas, 289.
Banastre, William, 245.
Banastre, William, Rector of Croston,

354.
Bancroft, Archbishop Richard, 212.
Bancroft, Bishop John, 212.
Banister, Henry, 364, 461, 466, 518.
Banister, Thomas, of Preston, and his

wife Alice Hodrkinson, 364.
Banistre, William, Alderman of Preston,

364.
Bank Hall in Croston, 358, 359.
Bank Hall in Walton, 224.
Bankes, Meyrick, 249.
Bankes, Mr. of Winstanley, 254.
Bankes, Richard, 249.
Bankes, Thomas, 249.
Bankes, Thomas, of Wjgan, 254.
Bankes, William, of Winstanley, 249,

254.
Banks, J. 176.
BarcToft Hall, 312, 314.
Barcroft, Thomas, Gent. 314; Elizabeth

his daughter, wife of Henry Brad-

shaw, 314.
Bardsea, Adam de, 546.
Bardsea, Elizabeth, wife of James An-

derton of Clayton, 546.
Bardsea, Nicholas, 546.
Bardsea or Berdsea Hall, 546, 569.
Barker, Rev. James, 418, 419.
Barlow, Rev. John, of Colne, 326, 328,

337.
Barlow, Rev. Mr. 311.
Barnard, Francis, 357.
Barnard, Mary, widow of William, Esq.

374.

580

INDEX.

Barnard, Mr. Joseph, curate of Darwen,

284.
Barnes, Henry, 403.
Bams, Mr. 230.
Bams, Joseph, 232, 236.
Bams, Richard, D.D. 403.
Bamside, or Bemesete, 326.
Baron, Christopher, of Oswaldwisle, 323.
Baron, Thomas, 501.
Barrett, Thomas, the Manchester Anti-
quary, 268.
Barrow, Rev. Hugh^ Vicar of Lancaster,

242; Rachel his daughter, wife of

WUliam Patten, 242.
Barton, Andrew, 323.
Barton, Fleetwood, wife of Richard Shut-

tleworth of Gawthorp M.P. 469.
Barton, Grimbald de, 469.
Barton, Matilda, daughter of Geoffrey

Redmayne, 467.
Barton, Mr. Miles, of North Meols, 378.
Barton,lMrs. 369.
Barton, Rev. Miles, 378.
Barton, Richard, Esq. 469.
Barton, St. Lawrence's Chapel in, 529.
Barton, Thomas, 260.
Barton, Thomas, of Barton, 467.
Barton, Thurstan, of SmithiUs, 184.
Bartron, Sir Thomas, 376.
Barwick, Mr. Thomas, a benefactor to

StaTeley, 506.
Bath, Mr., Vicar of Rochdale, 350.
Battlefield, Chaplains of, 449.
Battelfylde Colleffe, 449; Warden of, 449.
Bayley, chantry founded there by Robert

Ciiderhow, Rector of Wigan, 447.
Bayley, Richard de, 288.
Baynes, Robert, Gent. 493.
Beamont, William, Esq. 215.
Beauclerc, Charles, 167, 168.
Beauclerc, Lord Sidney, 167.
Beauclerc, Topham, 167, 168.
Beaumont Cote in Skerton, 549.
Beaumont Hall, 464.
Becansaw, 362.

Beck, Robert, of Manchester, Gent. 412.
Beck's " History of Furaess Abbey," 672.
Beckermet, Churches of SS. Bridget and

John, 571.
Becket, Oliver, 488.
Beconsall alias Hesketh Bank, 362; made

a Parish, 362.
Bedford, Ingelram de Gynes, Earl of,

408.
Bedford, John, Duke of, 408.
Bekangesgill, Vale of, 570, 571.

Bekansgill, or Vale of Nightshade, 670.
Betham, Ann, daughter of Roger, 427;

wife of Sir Robert Midleton of

Leighton, 427.
Betham, Ralph de, 492.
Betham, Thomas de, 427.
Bell, Mr. W.. Viear of Huyton, some

account of, 179, 180.
Bellasis, Sergeant, 438.
Bellingham, Mr. 367, 368.
BelUngham, Mrs. 367, 368.
Bennett, Philip, M.A. Minister of Cart-

mel, 499.
Bennison, Mr. of Bum Hall, 469.
Bennison, Thomas, senior, of Lancaster,

437,533.
Berkeley, Mr. Gawain, 199.
Berry, James, 196.
Berry, Thomas, 225.
Bewsey Hall, 234, 236.
Bickerstaffe, 460.

Bigg, George, Parish Clerk of Hawks-
head, 521.
Bigland, Edward, 500.
Biglaud, George, Esq. 600.
Bigland Hall, 499, 600.
Bigland, Mr. George, 600.
Bigland, Mr. Henry, 499, 600, 601.
Bigland, Mrs. Jane, 500.
Bigland, Ralph, Esq. Garter, 600.
Bigland, Thomas, G^nt., 501.
Billing, 253.
Billmg, Manr de, 253.
Billington, Adam de, 286.
Billington, Ralph, son of Creoffrey, 286.
Bindloss, Christopher, a dealer in Kendal

Cottons, 561.
Bindloss, Cicely, wife of William Stand-

i8hEsq.561.
Bindloss, Francis, Esq. 662; Dorothy his

wife, daughter of Thomas Chamock

Esq. 662.
Bindloss, Peter, son of Christopher, of

Staynton, 662.
Bindloss, Rebecca, daughter of Sir Hugh

Perry, 661.
Bindloss, Richard, son of Robert, late of

Stratford, 662.
Bindloss, Robert, second son of Chiifto-

pher, 562.
Binoloss, Robert, Es^ 661.
Bindloss, Sir Fraucb, 669, 661; Cicely

his wife, daughter of Lord Delaware,

661.
Bindloss, Sir Robert, Bart. 410, 432, 661,

562.

INDEX.

581

Binffley, Lord, 279.

Birch Ann^ wife of Wurden Peploe, 4^.

Birch, Mrs. Alice, 260.

Birch, Samuel, of Underwood, 162.

Biroh Thomas, M.A. Vicar of Preston,

467,
BirchaU) Mr. William, Curate of Hol-
land, 259.
Birehall, Robert, Yeoman, 268, 269.
Birlej, Isabel, 417, 418; wife of Thomas,

417; daughter of Thomas Coulbron,

of Kirklutm, 417; some account of

her, 418.
Birom, Mr. of Prescot, 208.
Bisooe, Edward, 391.
Biscopheym, 673.
Bispham Hall, 254, 358, 359.
Bispham, Margaret, daughter and heiress

of Thomas, 253.
Bispham, Parish of, 298, 299, 458.
Bispham, Roger de, 253.
Bispham, Thomas, 253.
Blackburn, 274.
Blackburn, Rural Dean of, 323.
Blackbume, Adam de, 290.
Blackbume, Agnes and Beatrix, 275.
Blackbume, Henry de, 274.
Blackbume, John, of Liverpool, 169.
Blackbume, John, Esq. 231.
Blackbume, John Ireland. Esq. 167, 231.
Blackbume, Margaret, ox Scorton, 411,

412.
Blackbume, Richard and Adam, 274.
Blackbume, Mr. Richard, of Newton, 272.
Blackbume, Robert de, 173.
Blackbume, Roger, 274.
Blackbume, Thomas, 167.
Blaokledge, Edward, 349, 350, 352.
Blackledg^, Mr. James, 198.
Blackledge, John, 386.
Blackleech, James, of London, 200.
Blackpool, 457.
Blakey, Robert, of Colne, 325; a chap-

leyn, 325.
Blakey, Thomas, of Marsden, 326.
Blawith Chapel, 538.
Blawith, petition of the inhabitants of,

to Grastrell, 538.
Blencowe, Mr. William, and Elizabeth

his wife, daughter of Ferdinand

Latus Esq. 541.
Blencowe, WQliam Ferdinand Esq. 541.
Blevin, Thomas, 195.
** Bloomsmithy,** or wood rents, 507.
Blnndell, of Ince Blundell, 174.
Blondell, Charles Robert, Esq. 218.

Blundell, Henry, son of Nicholas, of Lit*
tie Crosby, 205.

Blundell, Henry, 218.

Blundell, Ince, 218.

Blundell, John de, 218.

Blundell, Jonathan, Esq. 173.

Blundell, Nicholas, 220.

BlundeU, R. H. Esq. 173.

Blundell, Sir Robert. 219.

Blundell, Thomas Weld, 218.

BlundeU, William, Esq. (not CharUs,)
205 220

Blundeli, wiuiam de, 218.

Boardman, Mr. 206.

Bold, Adam, 332.

Bold, Anna Maria, 194, 210.

Bold, Dorothea, 194.

Bold, Francis, Esq. 304.

Bold Hall, 210.

Bold, Henry, of North Meols, Esq. 462.

Bold, John, of North Meols, Esq. 462.

Bold, Mary Patten, 194.

Bold, Matthew, 210.

Bold Monuments and Chapel, 209.

Bold, Peter, of Bold, 194, 210.

Bold, Richard, of Bold, 231.

Bold, Robert de, 210.

Bold, William, 210.

Bolden, John, of Hyning Hall, Esq. 567.

Boleign, Stephen, Earl ofl 670.

Bologne, Stephen, Earl or, 570.

Bolingbroke, Henry de, 226.

Bolingbroke, Henry, Duke of, 317.

Bolingbroke, Henry, Earl of, 430.

Bolton, Dr. Samuel, 280.

Bolton^ Ellen, 420.

Bolton, James, 403.

Bolton, John, 420.

Bolton le Sands, 546.

Bolton, Mr. Robert, 280.

Bolton, Thomas, eitisen of London, 513;
extract from his Will, 513.

Bond, George, 524.

Bond, Margaret, 503.

Bonyile, William Lord, of Churton, 495;
Elisabeth his wife, 495.

Booth, Biahop of Lichfield and Arch-
bishop of York, 203.

Booth, G^rge, of Dunham Masiey, Esq.
233.

Booth, Katherine, of Barton, 320.

Booth, Sir Geoige, 231.

Booth, William, Esq. 231.

Booth, William, Rector of Prescot, 203.
' Bootle, &r Thomas, M.P. 176, 201, 268.

Bordrigge, James, 492.

582

INDEX.

Bordley, Mr. William, Minister of

Uawkshead, 624.
Borrett, Mr. 489.
BorwicK Hall described, 659.
Berwick Manor and Chapel, 661.
Bostoek, Edward, Gent, of London, 197.
BotUler, Sir Richard le, 460.
BotiUer, Sir Theobald, 414, 416, 448.
Botyler, John le, 261.
Bomogne, Stephen, Earl of, 634.
Bourne, Cornelius, of Stalmine Hall,

443.
Bourne, James, Esquire, of Heathfield

House, 444.
Bourne, Richard, 412, 420.
Bourne. Robert, 412, 420.
Bousfieid, James, 488.
Bouskiil, James, 488.
BoTill, W. de, 644.
Bowden, Richard or Baldwin, Minister

of Holland, 263, 269.
Bowes, John, and Margaret his wife, of

Scotforth, 437.
Bowes, Sir Martin, 376.
Bowes, Thomas. Esq. 437.
Bowet, Henry, Archdeacon of Richmond,

431, 468, 462, 412, 667; afterwards

Archbishop of York, 612.
Bowman, Rer. Thomas, 623.
Bowman, Thomas, Esq. 623.
Brabine, Mr. John, of Chipping, 402,

403.
Bradbury, Thomas, 316.
Braddylt Colonel, 646.
Braddyll, Col. Wilson Gale, 669.
Braddyll of Conishead, 636.
Braddyll, Edmund, 324.
Braddyll, Edward, of Portfield, Esq. 287;

Ajin his daughter, 287.
Braddyll Hall described, 288.
Braddyll, H. R. G. 642.
Braddyll, John, 288, 326, 669.
Braddyll, Mr. married the heiress of

Dodding, 669.
Braddyll, Thomas, 288, 669.
Braddyll, Thomas R. Gale, 288, 293, 644,

569,
Bradford, Earl of, 246.
Bradley HaU, 373, 402.
Bradley, Mr. John, of Heapy, 386.
Bradley, Robert de, 402.
Bradsliaw, Geoi*ge, of Greenacre, 181.
Bradshaw, Henry, of Marple Hall, 314 ; |

Mary, his daughter, 314.
Bradshaw, John, or Pennington, Esq. 1 83.
Bradshaw, Margaret, 183.

Bradshaw, Mr. 404, 652.

Bradshaw, Mr. James, Wigan, 246, 263,

256,
Bradshaw, Richard, 183, 184, 186.
Bradshaw, R. F. Esq. Patron of Kellet,

661, 652.
Bradshaw, William, of Halton Esq. 662.
Bradshaw, William Bradshaw, Esq. 652.
Bradshaw, William, of Uplitherland, 161.
Bradshaw, William and John, 283.
Bradshaigh, Rog^r de, and Mabilla, 161, ^

247; Richard, their son, 161.
Bradshaigh, Roger, Esq. 246, 247.
Bradshaigh, Sir Roger, 247, 249, 261,

374.
Bradshaif^h, Sir William, M.P. 249.
Braithwaite, Edward, Curate of Batter-

thwaite, 263.
Braithwaite, James, 622.
Braye, Mr. William, Minister of St.

Michael's, 460.
Bread Silver, 626.
Bretargh, William, 170.
Breres, Blanche, 222.
Breres, John, M.A. Minister of Padiham,

343.
Breres, Edmund, 186.
Breres, Laurence, 222.
Breres, Oliver, Esq. Recorder of Preston,

676.
Breres, Rogei^ 222.

Bretherton, Henry, son of Ralph de, 388.
Brickley Hall, 248.
Brideoak, Dr., Rector of Standish, 396;

Bishop of Chichester, 396.
Bridgeman, Bishop, 168, 179, 206, 237,

546, 267, 321, 339, 377, 418, 499, 516,

626.
Bridgeman, Hon. George, 261.
Bridgeman, Sir John, 243, 262.
Bridgeman, Mr. Orlando, 251, 262.
Bridgeman, Sir Orlando, 243, 246.
Brierley, Mr. John, minister of Poulton,

467.
Briggs, Mr. Rowland, 601.
Brindle, 348.
Brochol, Roger de, 464.
Brockholes, 464.
BrockhoUs, Nicholas de, 464.
Broke, Thomas, Priest of Padiham, 344.
Bromley, Mr. 180.
Brookbank, Elizabeth, 601.
Brookbank, John, 601 .
Brooke, Mr. John, ''an old malignant

not reconciled," 602.
Brooke, Richard, 366.

INDEX.

583

Brooke, Sir Peter, of Mere, 365.
Brooke, Susanna, daughter and heiress

of Peter, 365.
Brooks, WilUam Cunliffe, Esq. 303.
Broome and Knight, Messrs. 424.
Brotherton, John, 266.
Brotherton, Thomas, of Hey Esq. 266,

267.
Broughton in Fumess, 527.
Broughton in Preston, 467.
Broughton Tower, 468.
Broughton Tower in Fumess, 529.
Browedge School, in Cartmel, 500.
Brown, Alice, widow, 404.
Browne, Anthony, of Southwelde in the

county of Essex Esq. 354, 356.
Brownrigge, Giles, of St. Clement Danes,

London, 515,516.
Brownswood, Mr. William, 376.
Browsholme Hall described, 347.
Brus, Ag^es, de, 406.
Brus, Peter de, 408, 557.
Bryche, X'pofer, 341.
Bryer, Rev. Thomas, of Marton, 459.
Bryn Hall, 268; described by Mr. Bar-
rett, 269.
Bryn, Sir Peter de, 348.
Bruch Hall, 234, 235.
Baeeleuch, Elizabeth, Duchess of, and

Queensbury, 515.
Buccleueh, Henry, Duke of, 309, 317.
Bttceleuch, Walter Francis, Duke of,

324, 507, 542.
Backingham, Catherine, Duchess of, 525.
Buckley, Captain, of Buckley, 397.
Buckley, Sir Thomas, 349.
Buckley, Thomas Foster, Esq. 464.
Buckley, WiUiam, 216.
Bulkeley, Thomas J. Viscount, 289, 455.
Bullock, Hugh, citizen of London, 251,

252.
Bullock, John, 251, 252.
Bullock, Roger, of Wigan, 251, 252.
Bullock, William, 339.
Bnrd. WUliam, a Priest, 320.
Bnigh, Christiana, wife of Adam de, 440.
Bnigh, Hubert de. 440, 482, 483.
Burgh, Geoffrey de. Vicar of Winwick,

261.
Bunnmdy, Duchess of, 527.
BurBngton, WiUiam, Earl of, 500, 502,

503, 505, 506, 511, 525, 567.
Bum Hall, 458, 459.
Bum. Richard, of Garstang Parish, 446.
Burnley, 31^ 334.
Burnley Grammar School, 312, 315.

Burron, Edward, 186, 189.

Burrow, Robert, 503.

Burscough, Abbey of, 196.

Burscough, Peter, 291, 349, 350, 380,

383, 465.
Burscough Priory, Founder of, 177, 178,

197.
Burton, Robert, 553, 554.
Burtonwood, 237.
Burtonwood ChapeL founded by Thomas

Bold Esq. 237.
Burr, John, of Lealand, 382.
Bushell, Adam, 442.
Bushell, Mr. Seth, Incumbent of Enxton,

384; Vicar of Lancaster, 418, 442,

446.
Bushell, Seth, Draper of Preston, 465.
Bushell, William^ Esq. M.D. 428; an

account of his family and charity,

428, 442: Elizabeth his wife, 428.
Bushell, William, Rector of Heysham,

421.
Bushell, William, Curate of Groosnargh,

428.
Busli, Roger de, 274, 297, 348, 371, 387.
Bussell, Aricia, 379, 388.
Bussell, Huffh, 194, 387, 388.
Bussell, Richuti, Baron of Penwortham,

366, 380, 390.
Bussell, Robert, 379, 388.
BusseU, Warin, 371, 379, 380, 382, 387.
Butler, Alexander, of Kirkland Esq.

412, 451.
Butler, Archdeacon Thomas, 549.
Butler, Edward, 230.
Butler, Henry, 456.
Butler, Helen, wife of Dr. Fyfe, 444.
Butler, John, Esq. 388.
Butler, John, 237, 412.
Butler, John le, 231.
Butlers of Kirkland, 410.
Butler, Margaret, 232.
Butler, Mr. 409, 450.
Butler, Ralph, Baron of Seudley, 182.
Butler, Richard, of Rawcliffe, 232, 412,

444,450.
Butler, Thomas, Esq. 232, .549.
Butler, Thomas, of Kirkbnd, 412, 549;

Dorothy Cole, his wife, 400, 412,

5^.
Butler, Sir Thomas, 230, 232, 234.
Butler, Sir William, of Beausy. 210, 215,

235; Elizabeth, his daughter, 210,

215, 235.
Butler, Sir WiUiam, 230.
Butterfield, Thomas, 326.

1

584

INDEX.

Butterworth, Alezjuider, Esq. Sheriff of

Laneaahire. 360.
Byrom, Edward, Esq. 264.
Byrom Hall, 264.
Byrom, Henry de, 264.
Byrom, James, 2^.
Byrom, John, M.A., F.R.S. 264.
Byrom, John, Esq. 264.
Byrom, Mr. 207, 208.

Caerwerid, the British name of Lan-
caster, 430.

Caldra or Calder Abbey, in Cumberland,
some accoont of, 57 1.

Galveley, Sir Geoi^e, of Lea, 272.

Calvert, Dr. Thomas, Warden of Man-
chester, 465.

Calvert, John, Esq. Patron of Cocker-
ham, 404, 405.

CalT6rt, Mr. William, 406.

Calvert, Thomas, 404.

Camelford, Mr. Gabriel, Curate of Stave-
ley, 605.

Camoys, Lord, 218.

Campbell's, Lord, Live* of ths Chaneei-
torgf quoted, 242.

Campeden, Walter de, 244.

Canoefield, Agnes, sister of William de,
496.

Canoefield, Alice de, 496.

Cancefield, John de, 496.

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 276, 277,
298, 317, 322, 332, 346.

Canterbury, Robert, Archbishop of, 307.

Canterbury, Thomas, Archbishop of, 628.

Cardigan, George, Earl of, 222, 482.

Cardigan, Lord, 216, 484, 487.

Cardigan, Robert, Earl of, 482.

Cardwell, Edward, M.P. 396.

Cardwell, James, of Ellerbeck, Esq. 396.

Cardwell, Rev. Dr., of Oxford, 303.

Cardwell, Rev. Richard, 396.

Cardwell, Richard, Esq. 303; Jane, his
wife, 303.

Cairns, Mr. 491.

Cark Hall, 604.

Carlton Hall, 468.

Carlton, Laurence, 469.

Cariton, Margaret, wife of Thomas Al-
mond, 459.

Came, Thomas, Esq. 492.

Carr Hall, 278.

Can*. Rev. Ralph, of Cocken Hall, 394;
nis wife Ann, daughter of Anthony
Hall, Esq. 394.

Carter, Alice, 445.

Carter, Edward, of EUel, Gent. 437.

Carter, Robert, Gent. 166, 414, 444, 445.

Carter, William, 168, 177.

Cartmell, 497.

Cartmell Fell Chapel, 601.

Cartmell, Prior of, 518.

Cartmell Priory, 498, 566.

Carus, Justice, 552.

Carus, Mr., Patron of Halton, 652.

Carus, Sir Christopher, Knt. 562.

Carus, Thomas, Esq. senr. 653.

Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, 214^ 272,
384.

Case, John Asheton, 204, 206.

Case, Jonathan, 204, 206.

Case, Mr. John, 198.

Castlemain, Roger, Earl of, 288.

Cathedral, St. Paul's, 361.

Caton Chapel, 431, 433, 439, 673.

Caton, Christopher. 411.

Caton, Elizabeth, 411.

Caton, John, 411.

Caton, Thomas de. 439; Agnes, and Alice,
his daughters, 439.

Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, 348.

Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, 348^ 349.

Cavendish, Lord G. A., half-brother of
the fifth Duke of Devonshire, 600.

Cavendish, Lord George A. 499.

Cavendish, Lord John, 626.

Cavendish, Sir WilUam, 349.

Cavendish, William, Esq. 348.

Cawson, Ann, 406.

Cawthome, John Fenton, Esq. 407, 446.

Cawthome, William, Esq. ^Jl5.

Cera Panis, a Church due, 546.

Cestria, Peter de, Rector of Whalley,
299, 300, 302, 306, 318.

Chaddesden, Henry de, Canon of Lich-
field, 243.

Chaddock Hall, 183.

Chaderton, Bishop, 380, 539, 544.

Chadwick, Catherine, 360.

Chadwick, John, of Healey, Esq. 360.

Chadwick, Lewis, 360.

Chadwick, Mary, of Carter Place, 334.

Chalice and Shepherd in St. Botolph's,
Bishopsgate, 251.

Chamberlain, Mr. 442, 549.

Chamberlain, Rev. Thomas, of Rulford,
368.

Chamberlain, Richard, 314.

Chambers, Abraham Henry, Esq. 345.

Chamuey, Francis, 610.

Cbamney, John, 610.

Chamney, William, 626.

INDEX.

585

ChajjmaD, Mr. ThomaSy of Booth Hall,

in Conlton, 508.
Chapman^ William, 510.
Chamlej, Isabella, 475.
Chamley, John, 394.
Chamlevy Rev. W., Curate of Broughton,

436.
Chamock, Dorothy, daughter of Thomas,

of Astley, Esq. wife of FranciB Bind-

1o88 Esq. 562.
Chamock, Henry, tayloor, 375.
Chamock, James, 394.
Chamock, Robert, of Chamock, 365, 379;

Mar^ret, his daughter, 365.
Charteris, Colonel, 19iS, 404, 405, 482,

AQA

Charteris, Janet, wife of James, Earl of

Wemyss, 482.
Chepyn, John de, 401.
Chepyn, Manor of, 401.
Chepyn, Richard de, 401.
Chester, Archdeacon of, 320, 323, 324,

OAt \ OAA OKA
OTIV, OfrXf Oir±»

Chester, Bishop of, without his Seal, 338.
Chester, Dr. Sumner, Bishop of, 321.
Chester, John, Bishop of, 291, 505, 527.
Chester, Ranulph de Blundevill, Earl of,

164,458.
Chester, Ranulph, Earl of, 163. 430, 579.
Chester, William, Bishop of, 525.
Chetaston, Stephen de, Rector of War-
rington, 244.
Chetham, Humphrey, of Turton, Esq.

372.
Chetham, Ralph, of Turton, Gent. 223;

Mary, his daughter, 223.
Chew, John, of Whalley, Gent. 302, 303.
Chew, Mr. Edward, 289.
Chew, Mr. Obadiah, 302.
Chicheley, Archbiahop, 210.
Chicheley, Sir Thomas, 272.
Chicheley, Thomas, of Wimpole, 242;

Elizabeth, his daughter, 242.
ChildwaU, 164.
Childwall Hall. 168.
Chipendall, John, 441.
Chipendall, Thomas, 441.
Chipping, 401.

Chipping, Parish o^ Saxon, 401.
Chisnall, Ann, daughter and heiress of

Sir Edward, and wife of Stephen

Hamerton, 397.
Chisnall, Edward, of Chianall, Esq. 395.
Chisnall, Edward, of Preston, 397.
Chisnall Hall, 397.
Chisnall, Sir Edward, 396, 397.

Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 208.

Chorl^h, 363.

Chorley, 363.

Chorley, Chapelry of, made a Parish,

363.
Chorley HaU, 222, 365.
Chorley Lower Hall, 365.
Chorley, Richard, 222, 366.
Chorley, William, 222.
Chorley, William de, 363.
Chowbent, 189.

Chowbent, Chapel domestic, 189.
Chowbent, present Chapel built in 1810,

190.
Church, 322.

Church, Chapelry of, 322.
Church-kirk, 322.

Churchlowe, Mr. Minister of Lango, 287.
Churton's Lif$ of Dean Nowell^ 429.
Clare, Dr. Andrew, Rector of Walton,

192, 223, 227, 230.
Clare, Isabel de, wife of William, Earl

of Pembroke, 567.
Clare, Mrs. 192, 223, 227, 230.
CUrke, Mr John, of Royle, 315; Mar-

nuret, his daughter, 315.
Clarkson, Rev. Thomas, Vicar of Chip-
ping, 556.
Claughton, 479.
Claughton Hall, 481.
Clayton, Captain, of Liverpool, 207.
Clayton, Captain Robert, of Fulwood,

382.
Clayton, Colonel, of Carr H«ll, 279, 326.
Clayton, Dr. Richard, 382.
Clayton, Edward Every, Esq. 325.
Clayton HaU, 381, 382.
Clayton, Henrietta, wife of Gen. Browne,

393.
Clayton, Henry de, 278, 476.
Clayton, Lord Chief Justice, 393.
Clayton, Mr. Edward, of Manchester,

280.
Clayton, Mr. Leonard, Vicar of Black-
bum, 278.
Clayton, Ralph, 280.
Clayton, R. C. B. Esq. 393.
Clayton, Sir Richard Bart. 393.
Clayton, Thomas, 279, 326.
Clayton, Thomas, of Adlington, 393.
Clederow, Rob. de. Parson of Wygan,

243, 474.
Clegg, Mrs. 420.
Clegg, Rev. Richard, Vicar of Kirkham,

416, 420, 425.
Cleworth Hall, 183, 184.

4f

586

INDEX.

Cliderhow, Adam de, son of Robert, 474.
Cliderhow, Cecilia de, 476.
Cliderhow, Henry de, 474.
Cliderhow, Richard de, 476.
Cliderhow, Sir Adam de, 477.
Cliderhow, Sir Robert, and Sibilla, his

wife, of Salebnrv, 295; Sybilla, his

widow, 295; Sybilla, his daughter,

295.
Clifton, Cuthbert, Esq. 415, 416^ 424.
Clifton, Mr. of Lytham, 446.
Clifton, Sir Cuthbert, 418, 447.
Clifton, Sir Thomas, Bart 424, 425, 447.
Clifton, Sir WiUiam de, 420.
Clifton, Thomas de, 420.
Clifton, Thomas, Esq. 308, 323, 415, 416,

417 447 675.
Clifton, William, Esq. 421.
Clifton, William, son of Henir de, 417.
Clitherall, Alice, 424.
Clitherall, EUzabeth, 425.
ClitheraU, Thomas, 448, 451.
Clithero, 319.

Clitheroe Castle Chapel, 317.
Clitheroe Grammar School, 321.
Clowes, Samuel, Es^. 183.
Clowes, William Leigh, Esq. 183.
Clyderhow, Hugh de, 319.
Clyderhow, Sir Robert de, 319 ; Sybil,

his daughter, 319.
Cocke, Walter, 551.
Cockenskell, John, 544.
Cockerham Hall, 405.
Cockerham Priory, 405.
Cockshutt, Thomas, 284.
Cokeram, Cockerham, Cocreham, 403.
Cokersand, Abbey of, 408, 410, 477, 567,

568.
Coksrsandy Coueher Book of, 480.
Cokersand founded by Ranulph Mes-

ohines, 568.
Cokersand, Rent Roll of the Abbey of,

567.
Cokersand, St. Mary of, 176.
Colbome, Henry, of I^ndon, 418, 419,

421,422.
Cole, Ann, wife of Edmund, of Lancaster,

Esq. 437.
Cole, Dorothy, daughter of Edmund,

wife of Thomas Butler of Kirk-
land, Esq. 549.
Cole, Edmund, Esq. of Beaumont Cote,

412, 549.
Cole, Mr. Robert, of the Coute, 548.
Cole, Thomas, of Beaumont Cote, Esq.

548.

Cole, Thomas Butler, Esq. of Kiikland,

411 549.
Collier, Mary, 257.
Collier, Randal, 257.
Collier, ReT. John, Cnrate of Hollin-

green, some account of him, and

of his son, John Collier, commonly

called ''Tim Bobbin," 240, 241.
Colne, 324.

Colne, a Roman town, 324.
Cohie, «8t. Cytes' Quire," 325.
Colne, the Norman Church of, 324.
Columbers, Cioeley, daughter of Alan de,

166.
Colunio, 324.
Compton, Sir Henry, 440, 442, 548,

649.
Coningshead Priory, 532, 534, 668; Ca-
nons of, 533, 536.
Conishead Priory^ 532, 668; founded by

William de Lancaster, 636.
Coniston Church, 539.
Coniston HctU, by the Rot. William

Giesley, 572.
Conyers, Isolda, daughter of Robert,

wife of WUliam Croft of Yealand

Conyers, 563.
Conyngton, Richard de. Vicar of Orms-

kirk, 197.
Cook, Mr. 170.

Cooper, Hugh, 365, 366, 441, 442.
Cooper, Mrs. Elizabeth, of Chorley, 374,

393, 394.
Cop, 452; origin of the Chapel, 453.
Copp School, 461.
Copul Manor Chapel, curiouB statement

respecting, 395.
Comall, Richard, 461.
Coroder of the Church of Leyland, 379.
Cort, Thomas, 484.
Cosney, Dorothy, 466.
Coulton, 507.
Coulton Hall^09.
Counscough, Hall, 173.
Courcy, Lord De, 404, 408, 448.
Cowper, Robert, 257.
Cowperthwaite, Leonard, 521.
Cowpland, James, of Finsthwaite, 510^
CowpUmd, Sir John de, 448, 634, 667.
Cowpland, Sir Richard, founds a Chantry

at Bolton, 545.
Cragge, Mr. William, Curate of Satter-

thwaite, 524.
Crane, Geoige, of Lathom, 201.
Crane, Rev. Thomas, Curate of Winwiek,

201.

INDEX.

587

Crane, William, of Newboroug^h, 201.

Cranmer, Archbighop, 300, 542.

CraTen, Richard, of Billinffton, 289.

Crayen, Robert, of Frizingball, 328.

Crewe, John, Lord, 345.

Crineboys, Mr. William, of Leyland. 380.

Crisp, Isabella, of Parbold, widow, 372.

Crisp, John, of Gra^s Inn, Esq. 372.

Crisp, Thomas, M. P. 372.

Croxt, Alice, daughter of Henry de, 479,
480.

CrofI, Alison, wife of GeofiVey Middleton
Esq. 503.

Croft, Edward, of Claughton, 480.

Croft, Francis, Esq. 479, 481.

Croft. Gabriel, Esq. 480, 558; Patron of
Heysham, 556.

Croft, Henry de, 479, 480.

Croft, Henry, son of Roger de, 550.

Croft, Isolda, wife of William de, 563.

Croft, John and Simon, 480.

Croft. Mabella, daughter and heiress of
flames, of Dalton, wife of Peter Legh
of Lyme. 480, 563.

Croft, NichoUs, of Dalton, Esq. 563.

Croft, Roger, son of Henry, 480.

Croft, Roger, son of William, and his
wife Elizabeth Redmayne, 563.

Croft, William, Esq. 480.

Croft, with Southworth, constituted a
Parish, and Rectory, 262.

Crofte, Esq. 480.

Crombleholm, Rey. William, Vicar of St.
Michael's, 451 ; Ann his wife, daugh-
ter of Alexander Butler, Esq. 451.

Crombleholm, Richard, Clerk, 451, 453.

Crompton, Mr. 168.

Crompton, l^Ir. Thomas, 188.

Crompton. Mrs. 176.

Crook Hall in Leyland, 381.

Crook, Mr. 396, 397.

Crook. Mr. of Abram, 289, 291, 292, 360,
378.

Crook, Mr. Thomas, Vicar of Penning-
ton, 533.

Crook, Thomas, 466.

Crook, William, of Coppull, 395.

Crosby Grammar School, 221.

Crosby Magna or Much Crosby, 219.

Cross Hall in Chorley, 365.

Cross Hall in Ormskirk, 198.

Cross, John, of Myerscough, 412.

Crosse, Catherine, 170.

Crosse, John, 191, 193, 455.

Crosse, John, Esq. 470.

Crosse, Mrs. Mary, 205.

Crosse, Richard, 467.

Crosse, Richard, of Cross Hall, 222.

Crosse, William, of Red Scar, Esq. 470.

Croston, 353.

Croston Chnreh appropriated to Syon

Monastery, 353.
Croston Church giyen to Lancaster

Priory, 573.
Croston Glebe, mode of leasing, 356.
Croston Hall, 35a

Croston, Mr. Henry, of Croston, 360.
Croston Parish divided, 356.
CroukeshM^h, William de, 456.
Croxteth Park, 224.
Croxton Abbey, 482, 483, 485, 490.
Cuerdale Hall, 290, 291.
Cnerden Hall, 314, 381, 382.
Culcheth Hall, 264.
Culcheth, John, 257, 270.
Culcheth, Katherine, wife of John Traf-

ford, of Croston, 265.
Culcheth, Thomas, Esq. 265.
CunlifFe, Ellis, 305.
Ounliffe, Foster, of Liverpool, 306.
Cunliffe, Henry Owen, Esq. 327.
Cunliffe, John, 223; Elizabeth, his

daughter, 223.
Cunliffe, Mrs. Jane, 305.
Cunliffe, Mrs. Katharine, 305.
Cunliffe, Nicholas, of WycoUar, 305.
Cunliffe, of Hollins, Gent. 327.
Cunliffe, Rev. Ellis, 305.
Cunliffe, Robert, 305.
Cunliffe, Sir Ellis, M.P. Bart. 305.
Cunscough, 174.
Curwen, Geoffrey, 439.
Curwen, Margaret, daughter of Walter,

504.
Curwen, Nicholas, 439.
Curwen, Robert, 544.
Curwen, Ro^r, 439.
Curwen, Wuliam, Minister of Kellett,

550.
Curzon, Baron, 307.
Curzon, Mr. Nathaniel, 307, 320, 323,

329, 339 ; Mary, his wife, daughter

of Sir Raphe Assheton Bart. 307.
Curzon, Sir Nathaniel, 307*

Daore, Edmund de, and Alice Towneley

his wife, 376.
Dacre, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas.

wife of Sir Thomas Harrington of

Hornby, 487.
Dacre, Joan, wife of Sir Richard Fiennes,

552.

588

INDEX.

DBcre, Joftn de» 371, 652, 566.

Dacre, Lord, 552.

Dftcre, Margmiety lister of Gregoiy, ninth
Lord, 552.

DacT«y Banulph de, 203, 550, 552, 555.

Daere, Sir Humphrey, 371, 552.

Dacre, Sir WilliMn, 552.

Daere, Thomae, son of Thomas, Lord, 552.

Daere, Thomas, third son of Banulph de,
487.

Daere, William de, 203, 371, 552, 555.

Dalrymple, Charles, 249.

Dalrjmple, Elisabeth, wife of Alexander,
sixth Earl of Balearres, 249.

Dalton, 511; antiquity of the Ghorch,
511, 535; appropriated to Fnmess
Abbey, 512, 570 ; dissensions of the
ViearandAbbot,512, 570; deprived
of the endowment during the Civil
War, 512; modernised in 1830, 512;
aneient relics preserved, 512; eurious
Font, 512; account of the Tower,
513; Vicar of, 516; WUliam, chap-
lain of, 561.

Dalton, Dorothy, daughter of Robert, of
Thumham, wife of Edward Riddel]
Esq. 439.

Dalton,Eli2abeth, wife of William Hogh-
ton Esq. 405.

Dalton, Frances, wife of Humphrey
TrafFord Esq. 413.

Dalton, John, of Thumham Esq. 406, 413.

Dalton, Mr. 208.

Dalton, Robert, 413.

Dalton, Robert, of Bispham Esq. 405.

Dalton, Sir John, 405.

Dalton, Sir Robert de, 405.

Dam House, 183, 184.

Dandy, Andrew, citizen of London, 291.

Dandy, Mr. 381.

Dandy, William, Grocer, 360.

Daniel, Mr. of Daresbury, 380.

Daniel, Widow, 469.

Daniel, William, Yeoman, 468.

D'Aroy, Sir Francis, Knt. 562.

Darrell, Rev. John, 184.

Darwen, Upper, 283.

Davidson, W. 177, 180.

Dawbeny, Sir Ralph, and Katherine his
wife, 668.

D'Aubign^'a, Merle, Protector, 233.

Dawes', Bishop, Memorandum Book, 178.

Dawson, Mr. Myles, Vicar of Bolton le
Sands, 661.

Dawson, Pudsey, Esq. of Langcliffe Hall
and of Hornby Castle, 483, 486.

DawBon, WiUttm, 529.

Dean of Whalley, GeoiEre^, 317.

Deans of Whalley, married men, 298,

307.
Dee, Dr. 184.
Delawaie, Ciceley, danghter of Thomas

West, Lord, wife of Sir Francis

Bindloss, 661.
Delaware, Lord, 659.
Delves, John, of Doddington, 232.
Delves, Richard, canon of Lichfield, 232.
Demoniaealpossessionof certain members

of the Starkie £nnily, 184.
Dendamm, 496.
Dendron Chapel, 496.
Dennison, William, 521.
Dent, John, Esq. 404.
Denton, Robert de, Abbot of Fomess,

512 645.
Derby, Earl' of, 168, 170, 199, 201, 213,

214, 262, 372, 402, 418, 427, 450, 628,

529, 530, 567.
Derby, Ferrers, Earl of, 301.
Derby, Henry, Earl of, 276.
Derby, James, Earl of, 205, 355.
Derby, James, Lord Strange, Earl of, 355.
Derby, Rob. de Ferrers, Earl of, 226,

439.
Derby, William, Earl of, 363.
Derby, Thomas, first Earl of, 211, 268»

277, 282, 627.
Derby, Thomas, second Earl of, 197,

482
Derby, Edward, third Earl of, 196, 293.
Derby, Charles, eighth Earl of, 402, 627.
Derb^, William, mnth earl of, 201; Hen-
rietta, Maria, his daughter, 201.
Derby, Lady, 180.
Derby, Margaret, Countess of Richmond

and, 211, 644.
Derby, West, 226.
Derbyshire, Mr. 241.
Derbyshire, Thomas, 237.
Deuraen, Robert of Haslingden, 333.
Devonshire, Earl of, 4^.
Dewhurst, Robert, Minister of Rossen-

dale, 242.
D'Ewyas, Cecily, 292.
D'Ewyas, Sir John de, 292.
Dicconson, Charles, of Wrightington,

Esq. 198, 371.
Dicconson, Edward, Esq. 376.
Dicconson, Robert, and Ann Wrighting-
ton his wife, 371.
Dicconson, Robert, citisen of London,

496.

INDEX.

589

Dieconson, WilHam. Esq. and Melion
hi* wife, 376.

Dickenson, Hugh, 375.

Dickenson, Boberty boilt Dendron Cha-
pel, 496, 497.

Dickenson, Thomas, 445.

Dickson, John, 425.

Dickson, Bey. William, 453.

Dinkley Hall, 288.

Ditton Hall, 204.

Ditton, Joan, 206.

Ditton, John of, 216.

Ditton, Robert de, 205.

Ditton, Sir Peter de, 210.

Dixon, James, 510.

Dixon, Mr. Vicar of Kirkham, 416,
453.

Dohflon, Thomas and Jonathan, 451.

Dodding, Family, 535.

Dodding, George, Esq. 569.

Dodding, John, 574.

Dodding, MUes, Esq. 288.

Dodding, Miles, and his wife, Margaret
Sandys, 569.

Doddinff, Sarah, daughter and heiress of
Miles, Esq. wife of John, son and
heir of Thomas Braddyll of Portfield
Esq. 288, 569.

Dodgson, George, of Thomthwaite, 541.

Dodgson, John, and his wife Esther Am-
brose, 541,

Dodsworth, Matthew, Chancellor of
York, 561.

Dodsworth, Roger, educated at Warton
School, 560, 561.

Dolben, Archbishop, of York, 253.

Dole, a funeral gift, 420.

Domyille, James, 206.

DomTille or Doumbell, Katherine, 206.

Doming, Edmund, 355.

Doming, Mr. of Bispham, 378.

Doming, Mr. Richard, 358, 361.

Dorset, Marquess of, 494, 497.

Dorset, Thomas Gre^, Marquess of, and
Cecilia his wife, ^5.

Douglas, in Parbold, 375.

Downes, Boger de Wordley, Esq. 404.

Downham, 328; the Manor held bj An-
frav, a Saxon, 328.

Drake, Mrs. Abigail, 280.

Drinckhall, Mr., Curate of Tatham FelL
488.

Dromore, William, Bishop of, 281.

Dudley, Edmund, 224.

Dudley, Sir Edmund, 282.

Dudley, Bichard, 224.

Dugdale, Sir Bichard, Minister of Down-
ham, 329.

Dukedale, John, Chantry Priest of Cli-
theroe, 320.

Duldnfield, James, of Hindley, 255.

Dukinfield, Mrs. Frances, 254, 257.

Dukinfield, Bichard, Gent. 198.

Dunkenhalgh Hall, 323.

Dunn, Mr. William, 198.

Dunnishope Hall, 304.

Dutton Hall, 478.

Dutton, William de, 476.

Duxbnry Hall, 392, 393.

Dwerrihouse, Ann, 226, 227.

Dychefield, Edward, 226.

Dychefield of Ditton, 205.

Dyneley, Henry, Esq, 328.

Dyneley, John de, 328, 329.

Eccles, John, 475.

Eccleston, Edward. 205.

Ecdeston, formerly a Chapelry, 354;
now a Beetory, 371.

Eccleston Great School, 451.

Eccleston, Hall, 204.

Eccleston, Henry, of Eccleston, 175, 205.

Eccleston, HnglL 204.

Eccleston, Mrs. Eleanor, 206.

Eccleston, Bob. de, 204.

Eccleston, Thomas, of Eccleston, Esq.
288.

Eddleston, John, 254.

Eddleston, Thomas, 260.

Edmondson, John, Esq. 439.

Edmondson, Mr. Thomas, 439.

Edwards, Mr. Bobert, 303.

Edwin, Elisabeth, 249.

Edwin, John, 249.

Edwin, Sir Humphrey, 249.

Egergath, 173.

Egerton, Eleanor, daughter of Sir Tho-
mas Grey, 265.

Egerton, Mary, 208.

Egerton, Sir John, of WrinehiU, 265.

Egton with Newland, 543.

Elland, Sir Bichard de, 304.

EUeU Chapel, 403, 406.

EUeU Grange, 405, 406.

EUeU, Grimbold de, 406.

Ellen's, St. in Windle, 206; some ac-
count of the Chapel, 206.

Elliotson, Daniel, Esq. 413.

Ellis', Sir Henry, Letters of Eminent
lAterary Men, 465.

Ellison, Mr. David, Minister of ChUd-
waU,165.

590

INDEX.

ElliBon^ Rer. Timothy^ Incambent of
Formby, 227.

EUiBon, Wimam, of Wavertree, 168.

Elston HaU, 464.

EUwiek 452.

Eltoftes' Edward, Esq. of Famhill, 279.

Emmott, 326.

Emot, John, Esq. 327.

Emot, Richazd, 327.

Emot, Rob. de, 327.

Entwisle, George, of Gbyton, 295.

Entwisle, John, of Foxholes, Esq. 350.

Erasmus, 491.

Erdburv Priory, 181, 182, 183.

ErynacD, a Cell in Ireland dependant on
Fumess, 571.

Eskrigffe, G. 560, 551.

Eton, Joan, dauffhter of Rob. de Stock-
port, wife of Nicholas, 454.

Eton, Nicholas de, 454, 455.

Eton, Robert de, 454.

Eugenius, Pope, 574.

Eustace, John, foander of Stanlawe, 317.

Eustace, Richard Fitz, and Albreda his
wife, 317.

Eustace, Roger, assamed the name of
Lacy, 317.

EoxtonHall, 381.

Enzton Manor and Chapel, 384.

Ererard, James, Esq. of Lowick, 541.

Everard, the Misses, 541.

Every, Edward, Esq., 278.

Every, Sir Henry, Bart. 278.

Evesham, Abbot of, 194.

Exeter, Duchess of, 482.

Extwisle, Hall, 312, 313.

Fairbank, Sir Gilbert, of Burnley, 311,

312.
Fairbank, Sir WiUiam, Chaplain of

Colne, 325.
Fairclough, Dr. James, 260.
Fairfax, Hon. Colonel, 351.
Fairhnrst HaU, 373, 374.
Farington, Georve, 183.
Farington Hall m Penwortham, 381.
Farington, James Nowell, 381, 387.
Farington, John de, 379.
Fari^^ton, John, of Elston, 466.
Farington, Margaret, 183.
Farinffton, Mary, daughter of Mr. Roger,

wife of Dr. Seth Bnshell, 442.
Farington, Mr., Tnistee for Lord Moly-

nenx, 178.
Farington, Peter, 245.
Farington, Richard, 389.

Farington, Robert, 389.

Farington, Sir Thomas, of Shaw Hall,

381
Farington, Sir William, 381.
Farington, Thomas, 433.
Farington, William de, 379.
Farington, William, of Worden, 179,

380, 383, 337.
Famworth, 208.
Famworth Chapel, 208.
Famworth Monuments, 209.
Farren, Richard, 438.
Farrer, Elizabeth, 361.
Farrer, Thomas, 361.
Fauconberg, Henry, Viseoont, 275.
Fauconberg, Thomas, second Viscount,

323.
Fawoett, Mr. Thomas, Minister of Over-
ton, 442.
Fasakerley, Colqnel, 222.
Fazakerley, Henry, 174.
Fazakerley, Mrs. 229.
Fasakerley, Robert, of Fazakerley, 222.
Fazakerley, Thomas, 225.
Feamside, Henry, 339.
Featley, Dr. Daniel, 520.
Feilden, Henry, Gent. 275, 296.
Feilden, John, of Mollington Hall, 275.
FeUden, Sir William, 297.
Feilden, William, of Feniscowles Esq.

296.
Feilden, Joseph, of Witton House, 275,

282.
Fell, Gabriel, 513.
Fell, James, reputed Patron of Ulvers-

ston, 534.
Fell, Judge, 537.

Fell, Margaret, wife of George Fox, 537.
FeU, Thomas, Gent, of Redman Hall,

544,545.
Fell, Thomas, of Swarthmoor, 537.
Fell, Thomas, Reader of Blawith, 538.
Fellowes, Rice George, Esq. 377.
Felton, Dr. Bishop of Ely, 519.
Fenney, Mr. of Stalmine, 443.
Fenton, Dr. James, Vicar of Laneazter,

433,454,464.
Fenton, James, of Bamford Hall Esq.

471.
Fenton, John, of Crimble, Esq. 471.
Fenton, Joseph, of Bamford HaU, Esq.,

471, 473, 476.
Fenwick, Nicholas, Esq. of Claiighton,

480.
Fenwick, Nicholas Tatham assumed the

name of, 480.

INDEX.

591

Fenwick Thomas, Esq. 480, 481.
Ferrara, Agnes, wife of William de, 163.
Ferrars, Sir John de, 200.
Ferrara, William de, of Groby, 363.
Ferran, William, Earl, 164, 191, 363.
Ferrars, William, Esq. 311.
Ferren', Earls of Derby, 430.
Ferrers, Robert de, 490.
ffranoe, John, of Little Eccleston, 450,

463,454.
ffrance, John, jun. 450.
fhrance, Thomas Robert Wilson, Esq.

450.
ffrance, William, 186.
ffytton, Amabel, wife of Edmnnd Leigh,

284, 353.
ffytton, Edmond, 284, 367.
flrtton, Elizabeth, wife of Roger Nowell,

284.
flrtton, John, 284, 367.
flrtton, Matilda, wife of Sir William

Hesketh, 284, 366.
ffytton, Richard, Justice of Chester, 284,

353, 366, 382.
fiytton, Sir William, 353.
Fielden, John, 325.
Fiennes, Gregory, ninth Lord Dacre,

552.
Fiennes, Margaret, wife of Samson Len-

nard, 552.
Fiennes, Sir Richard, 552; Joan his wife,

daughter of Thomai, son of Thomas,

Lord Dacre, 552.
Finch, Mr. 394.
Finch, Mr. Edward, Rector of Wigan,

244,246.
Finsthwait, 509.
Firth, Thomas, 267.

Fisher, Mr. John, Minister of Shires-
head, 407.
Fisher, WUliam, 404.
Fits Roger, Richard, 574.
Flandrensis, Michael, or Le Fleming,

495, 496.
Fleetwood, Edmnnd, 459.
Fleetwood, Heniy, of Penwortbam, Esq.

177.
Fleetwood, John, Esq. 194, 195, 245, 271,

380, 387, 388, 400, 456, 458.
Fleetwood, Katherine, wife of William

Farington, 387.
Fleetwood, Letitia, 370.
Fleetwood, Mr. 194, 370, 457.
Fleetwood, Mr. Edward, 416, 459.
Fleetwood, Mrs. Marian, 277.
Fleetwood of ]^s8aU, 400.

Fleetwood, Richard, 271, 375, 387, 398,

443, 444, 451, 580.
Fleetwood, Sir Paul, 456.
Fleetwood, Sir Peter Hesketh, 194, 195,

400, 404, 456, 459.
Fleetwood, Sir Thomas, 246, 271.
Fleetwood, Thomas, 359, 368, 370.
Fleetwood, Williun, Serjeant-at-Law,

429.
Fleming, Daniel, the Oerk, son of Michael

le,545.
Fleming Dr. a Trustee, 540.
Fleminff, Dorothy, daughter of William,

of Kydall Esq. wife of John Ambrose

of Lowick, 536.
Fleming, Elisabeth, daughter of Wil*

liam, 353, 388.
Fleming, J. 542.
Fleming, John, 353, 388.
Fleming, John le, 480.
Fleming, le, 499.

Fleming, Michael le, 495, 543, 545.
Fleming, Mr, of Rvdall, 496, 535, 545.
Fleming, Ricluurd le, and his wife Elisa-
beth, daughter of Adam de Urswick,

539,544.
Fleming, Roger, of Coniston Hall, 539,

540.
Fleming, Sir Daniel, 539.
Fleming, Sir Richai^S, Bart. 539.
Fleming, Sir Thomas, Baron of Wath,

353, 388 ; Isabel his wife, 388.
Fleming, Sir William, Bart. 539.
Fleming, Thomas le, and his wife Isabel,

daughter of John de Lancaster, 539.
Fleming, William, Esq. 539, 540, 542.
Fletcher, Benjamin, 501, 503, 505.
Fletcher, General, 373.
Fletchw, Jane, 361.
Fletcher, Maiy, 315.
Fletcher, Miss, 373.
Fletcher, Mr. 501.

Fletcher, Mr. James, of London, 359.
Fletcher, Mr. John, 315.
Fletcher, Mr. John, junr. 315 ; Ann his

daughter, wife of James Roberts

Esq. 315.
Flookborough, 503.
Folds, Mr. 324.
Formby and Altcar, 163.
Formby, John, of Everton, and his wife

Helen, 175.
Formby, John, of Formby, Esq. 227, 228.
Formby, Miss, 228.
Formby, Roy. Richard, 228; Anne his

wife, 228.

592

INDEX.

Formby, Richard, Eaq. 228.

Forme, Mr. 206.

Fomebr, lliomas, de, 227.

Fort, John, M.P. 344.

Fort, Richard, Esq. 344.

Foster, Isaac, Esq. 374.

Foster, Mr. Minister of Archolm, 486.

Fox, George, the Quaker, 339.

Fox, Richard, 186.

Froggart, Thomas Button Mort, 187.

Frost, Walter, 406.

Fuller, Dr. 661.

Fulthorpe, Sir Roger, Chief Justice of

Ireland, 296.
Fumes and Cartmel, Deanery of, 494.
Fumese, Henry, Esq. 201 .
Fumess Abbey, 607, 643, 644, 670; some

account of it, 670, 671, 672.
Fumess, Abbot of, 632, 634, 636, 646.
Fumess Manor House, 673.
Fumess, St. Mary of, 618.
Fyfe, EIiJBabeth, wife of Henry Pigot,

B.D. 361.
Fyfe Helen 444.

Fyfe! Thomas, of Wedacre, Gent. 361.
Fyfe, WilUam, M.D. of Wedacra, 444.
Fyld, William, 461.

Gaitskili, Richard, founder of Bow-
bridffe Hospital, 613.

GalCy Colonel Wilson, Groom of the Bed-
chamber, 669.

Gale, John, Esq. and his wife Sarah
Wilson, 646, 669.

Gale, Margaret, wife of R. G. Townley
of Belfield Esq. 646.

Gale, Wilson, assumed the name of Brad-
dyll, 646.

Gale, Wilson, of High Head Castle, 288.

Gardiner, 432, 434, 436.

Gardiner, Christopher, 644.

Gardiner, James, 441.

Gardiner, Nicholas, 432.

Gardner, John and Robert, of Pilling,
412, 668.

Gardner, John, Esq. 413.

Gamer, Mr. William, 209.

Gamett, Richard, 180.

Gamett, William, Esq. 438.

Grarroway, John, Esq. 166.

Grarstang Chapel, in the Town, 412.

Garstang, Manor of, 408.

Garstange, high awlter of, 322.

Garston, 168, 170.

Garston Hall, 168, 170.

Garswood Hall, 268, 269

Garton, Richard, 270.

Gartside, Mr. Gabriel, 360.

Gartsyde, Rey. Thomas, of Newington,

Gascoigne, Bamber, 168.

Grascoigne, Bamber, Esq. and Maiy Green
his wife, 166.

Gaskell, Benjamin, of Themes House,
Esq. 184.

Gastrell, Bishop, 240, 246, 319, 326, 326,
331, 334, 337, 340, 366, 367, 368, 370,
386, 389, 392, 396, 397, 424, 426, 433,
463, 464, 470, 610, 614,616, 619, 623,
624, 616, 633, 636, 638, 664, 676; bbm
at Slapton in Northamptonshire, iii;
son of Henijr GastreU £s^. iii; some
account of ms ancestors, iii; connec-
ted with the Knightleys of Fawiley
Park, iy; his mother a daughter oiF
Edward Basshaw M.P. iy; lost his
father in eany life, y; sent to West-
minster School, y; afterwards a stu-
dent of Christ CSiurch Ozibrd, y;
ordained, y; elected Preacher of Lin-
coln's Inn, y; publishes his Conti*
derations an tns Trinity^ vi; sn-
swered by Dean Sherlock, yi; recom-
mended by Bishop Randolph, yi;
appointed boyle Lecturer, yii; nub-
hsned his Lectures, yii; quotea by
Bishop Van Mildert, yii ; introdaced
to Harley, afterwards Earl of Ox-
ford, yii ; appointed Chaplain of the
House of Commons, yiii; installed
Canon of Christ Church, yiii ; mar-
ried Elisabeth, daujgrhter of the Rey.
Dr. Mapletoft, yui; published a
Fast Sermanf yiii; contributed to
rebuild Peckwater's Qnadnmgle^
Oxford, yiii; preached and pub-
lished a Sermon on Popular Edu-
cation, ix; examined the state of
Diocesan Education and the endow-
ment of Schools, ix; published his
Christian InstituUs, ror the use of
the Charity Schools, x; translated
into Latin by Tooke, Master of the
Charter House, x ; always a popular
book, X ; an interleayed Greek Tes-
tament in the Chetham Library
containing his remarks and refer-
ences, transcribed by his Chaplain,
Jonathan Colly, x; a Member of
the Society for the Propagation of
the (jos|>eI in Foreign Parts, x; a
Commissioner for bunding fifty new

INDEX.

593

Churches in London, xi ; Proctor in
Convocation for Christ Church, xi;
Chaplain to Queen Anne, xi; pub-
lished SermonSy xi; succeeds Sir
William Dawes, as Bishop of Ches-
ter, xii; published Remarks upon
Dr. Samuel Clarke's Scripture Doc-
trine of the Trinity y xii^'long re-
grded as destined for the Episcopal
)nch, xii; views the Rebellion of
1715 with disapprobation, xiii; de-
fends the Universities against the
imputation of disloyalty, xiii; seal
of Peploe, Vicar of Freston, for the
Hanoverian Succession, xiv ; an ac-
count of Peploe, xiv; anecdote of
him, XV ; becomes Warden of Man-
chester, XV ; supposed to be ineligi-
ble for the digpiit J, xv ; opposed by
Gastrell, xvi; Ths Bishop ofChss-
tsr's CcLse published, xvi ; Lambeth
Decrees of equal authority with
University Degrees, xvii; Letters,
xvii; an Ansrosr to the ''Case," by
F. Bennett, xviii; Justice Eyres
opinion of Grastrell's ** Case," xviii ;
he receives the Thanks of the Uni-
yersities, xix; Anonymous Letter
from. Manchester, xix; Rey. Nath.
Banne's Letter from Manchester,
xxi; the Bishop defends the right
of Didsbury Church to certain lands
left by Rowland Mosley Esq. xxi;
Lady Bland^ xxiv; his Correspond-
ence with his Secretary, Dr. Strat-
ford, xxix; a brief summary of it,
xxix ; a prudent housekeeper, xxx ;
an active politician, xxx ; his ** Pro-
tests." xxxi ; his disinterestedness
in dispensing patronaee, xxxi; no-
tices of his brother-in-law. the Rev.
John Mapletoft, and ox his ne-
phew, Chaneellor Gastrell, xxxv;
and of the Rev. Francis Gastrell,
xxxvi; Vindication of Bishop At-
terbnry and Dr. Colbatch, xxxvi;
publiahes his Moral Proof of a
future StatSf xxxvii ; Letter to
Mr. Knightley, xxxvii; his death,
xxxvii; Monumental Inscripition at
Christ Church, Oxon. xxxix; his
WilL xii ; death of his onl^ son, xii ;
his Portrait by Dahll, xlii ; Samuel
Wesley's Poem to his memory, xliv;
Mrs. Gastrell's death and WiU,
xlviii; her daughter Rebecca, wife

of the Rey. Dr. Bromley, xlix ; no-
tices of him, and of the Rev. Thos.
Bat^shaw, xlix ; Browne Willis's al-
lusion to Gastrell, 1 ; the Bishop as
an Ecclesiastical Antiquary, 1; his
Notitia Cestriensis, li ; Circular
queries to the Clergy, li ; Dr. Orme-
rod's opinion of this work, liii; its
plan, liii; difficulty of obtaining
materials, assisted by Dr. Stratford,
liii; notice of him, and his character
by the Rev. Thomas Hunter, liv;
Bishop Saundersen, like Gastrell, a
student of Paleography, Ivii; the
MS. described Iviii ; given by Mrs.
Gastrell to Bishop Keene, lix ; pre-
sent state of the Diocese, lix;
Bishop Sumner's extraordinary la-
bours. Ix ; literary obligations ac-
knowledged by the Editor, Ixi.

Gaunt, John of, 191, 317, 379, 426, 461;
Blanche his wife, 317.

Gawthorp Hall, 344, 345, 469.

Gee, Dr. Edward, 372.

Gree, Mr. Edward, Rector of Eccleston,
372.

Gerard, Charles, Baron Gerard, 173.

Grerard, Colonel Richard, 250.

Gerard, Digby, Lord, 407.

Gerard, Elusabeth, 410.

Gerard, Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton,
407.

Gerard, Giles, of Ince, and Elizabeth his
daughter, wife of Ralph Markland
Esq. 260.

Gerard, John and Ellen, 249.

Gerard, Miles, 268.

Gerard, Radcliffe, Esq. 172.

Gerard, Sir Gilbert, 172, 320, 411.

Gerard, Sir John, 170, 268.

Gerard, Sir Owen, Priest of Brindle,
349

Gerard, Sir Thomas, 320, 348, 349.

Gerard, Sir Thomas, and Elizabeth his
wife, 262.

Gerard, Sir William, 249, 266.

Gerard, Thomas, 249, 250; Ann hi^
daughter, 249.

Gerard, William, 250, 349.

Grerard, William, of Ince, 250.

Gerards of Bryn, 262.

Grerman, Thomas, Esq. Mayor of Pres-
ton, 463.

Gremet, Agnes, wife of Adam de, 555.

Gemot, Annota, 229.

Gremet, Benedict, 167, 203, 371, 555.

4g

594

INDEX.

GenMt, Jo«m 203, 371.

Gemet, Joan, daughter of Roger, son of

Benedict, 652.
Gemot, John, son of Boger, 439.
Gremet, Sir Roger, of Halton, 573.
Gemot, Thomas, 439, 555.
Gemot, Vivian, 1 72; Emma his wife^ 172.
Gemot, Wymanus, 371.
Gemeth, Roger, 167, 229, 371, 491.
Gey, Mr., Vicar of WhaUey, 297, 301;

his wife Dorothy, and daughter

Martha, 301.
Ghisnes, Christiana, 404.
Ghisnes, Ingleram de, 404, 546.
Ghynes', the, 492.
Gibson, Bishop, 324. 507.
Gibson, George, of oeathwaite, 531.
Gibson, John, Reader of Blawith, 538.
Gibson, Robert, of Lancaster, 433.
GUbody, Mr. Robert, Minister of Hai-

lingden, 333.
Gilbody, Thomas, of Heap Ridinn, 332;

Martha his daughter, wife of Robert

Holden and Henry HanrreaTos, 332.
GUlibrand Hall, 365.
Gillibrand, Heniy, assumed the name of

Fazakerley, 363.
Gillibrand, Thomas, of Chorley Esq. 363,

365.
Gillow, Robert, of Leighton Gonyers Esq.

563.
Gilmuth, Robert Fitz, 492.
Gilpin, Bernard, 435.
Gilpin, Susannah, of Scaleby Castle, wife

of JeremiiJi Sawrey of Broughton

Tower, Esq. 52a
(lipps, Rev. Thomas, Rector of Bury,

351.
Girlington, John, Esq. 489, 490, 491.
Girlington, Nicholas, JBsq. 489.
Girlington, Sir John, 490.
Glasbrook, Jame8,*361.
Glasbrook, Mr. J., Curate of Rossendale,

340.
Olastonburyt Hearae's AntiquUiei of,

520.
Gleast, Eleanor, 227.
Gleaston Castle, 497.
Glover, Mr. William, 205.
Godolphin, Henry, D.D. Dean of St.

Paul's, 454.
Godolphin, Sidney, Earl of, 464.
Golbome made a Parish, 263.
Goodshaw, 331.
Groosnargh, 420.
Gore, Thomas, 173.

Graisdale, 523.

Graithwaite, 522.

Graithwaite HaU, 522.

Grandiaon, Sir Otto de, 414.

Grange Hall, in Ince BlundeU, 218.

Gray, Lady Jane, 534.

Gray, W. Chancellor, 414.

Gray, Walter, Archbishop of Yoik, 512,

526.
Gregory Charles, 334.
Gregory, Sir George, Priest of Roasen-

dale, his Will, 340, 341.
GreUe, Albert de, 274, 297, 371.
Gielle, Peter, son of Thomas de, 164,

169,348.
Green, Geoige, Esq. 327.
Grfoen, Geoige Emmot, 327.
Green, Lreland, wife of Thomaa Black-

burae, 167.
Green, Isaac, of LiTorpool, Esq. 166, 167,

223, 226; Mary his daughter, 166,

167.
Grfoen, Robert, of London Eeq. nbuQt

Dendron Chapel, 496.
Greenacres, John, Esq. 322.
Greenacres, Mr. Arthur, Vioar of Kiik-

ham,4Id.
Greenacres, Ralph, 328.
Grreenaores, Richard, 328, 329.
Greenacres, Sir Richard, 344.
Greenall, John, of Mtddleton, Esq. 267.
Greene, Edward, of London, Gent. 374.
Greene, Thomas, of Slyne, 404.
Grreene, Thomas, of Slyne, Esq. M.P.

492,493.
Grenehalgh, 410.
Greenhalgh, Alice, daughter of John,

Esq. wife of Francis Holte Esq. 477.
Greenhalgh Castle, in Gantang, 411.
Greenhalgh Hall, in Buiy, 411.
Greenhes^L Hall in Conlton, 509.
Greenwood, Henry, assumed tha name

of Holden, 322.
Greenwood, Henry, of Bomley, and

Betty his wife, 332.
Greenwood, John, 332.
Greenwood, John, of Lancaster, 410.
Grrenewode, Thoinas, Snbdeacon» Rector

of Heysham, 655.
Gredey, Hobert, founder of Swineshead

Abbey, 571.
Gressingham, 431.
Gressingham Chapel, 433, 440, 482, 483,

673.
Gressingham, Thomas de, 440.
Grimsa^ Chapel in Preston, 470.

INDEX.

595

Grimshmw, Christopher, 340.
GriBedale, Mr. of St. Martin's, 521.
Grisedale Hall, 523.
Groats, coarse grain for the poor, 422.
Grundy, Mr. John, Garate of Padiham,

345.
Grjme, John, 304, 305.
Gnest, John, of Abram, 251, 257, 260, 270.
Guest, Mrs. 207.
Guild Merchant of Preston, 463.
Gunning, Rev. H. J. Rector of Wigan,

251.
Gwillym, Robert Atherton, Esq. and

Henrietta Maria his daughter, 181.

Habergham Hall, 312; account of the

family, 312.
Haberghun, Laurence, of Habeivham,

310.
Habergham, Roger, 316.
HackensaU Hall, 444.
Hacking, Agnes, 288, 345.
Hacking, Bernard de, 288, 345.
Hacking HalL 288.
Hacking, William de, 288, 345.
HadWHall, 277.
Hale Chapel, 170.
Hale Hall, 164, 166.
Hall, Anthony, 393, 394.
Hall, Dr., Bishop of Chester, 243.
Hall, Frank, 393, 394.
Hall, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas

Stan&h, 393. m
Hall, Matthew, 425.
HaU Whittle, 215.
Hall wood, 173.
Halsall, 172, 173.
Halsall Hall, 173.
Halsall, Edward, 174, 175.
Halsall, Gilbert de, 172.
Halsall, Henry, 172.
Halsall, Robert, Vicar of Walton, 227.
Halsall, Simon de, 172.
HalsaU, Sir Cuthbert, of Halsall, 424 ;

Ann, his daughter, wife of Thomas

Clifton, 424.
Halsnead Hall and Park, 204, 265.
Halsted, Banastre, 313» 316.
Halsted, Capt. Charles, of Rowley, 316.
Halsted, Charles, Esq. 316.
Halsted, Dr. Henrr, 311.
Halsted, George, M.D. of Manchester,

312.
Halsted, Henry, of Bank House, 316;

his Will, 316.
Halsted, John, 339.

Halsted, Laurence, and Elisabeth his

wifiB, 313.
Halsted, Nicholas, 313.
Halsted, Rev. Charles, 313.
Halsted, Rct. Henry, Rector of Stans-

field, 312 ; his WiU, 316.
Halton Green and Park, 553.
Halton HalL 553.
Halton, the head of a Barony, 552.
Hambleton, 422.
Hambkton, the Chapri of, 422.
Hambleton, the Manor of, 422.
Hamby, Mrs. Elisabeth, 378.
Hamerton, Chisenhall, Esq. 397.
Hamerton, Stephen, of Hellifield Peel,

Esq. 397; Ann nis wife, daughter of

Sir Edward Chisenhall, 397.
Hamilton, Douglas, eighth Duke of, 409.
Hamilton, James, Duke of, 407, 409;

Elisabeth Gerard his Duchess, 407.
Hammond, Mr. 317.
Hampson, George, 186.
Hampton, Sir John. 349.
Hancock, Nicholas, 328; Ann, his

daughter and heiress, 345.
Hankinson, Alice, 424.
Hankinson, Thomas 455.
Hapten Tower, 335, 344.
Hapten Park, 345.
Hardman, James, of Rochdale, 168.
Hardman, John, of Liverpool, 168.
Hargreave, J. 324.

Hargreave Henry, of Haslingden, 332.
Hargreaves, Mr., Rector of Brandsbur-

ton, 324.
HargreaTcs, George^333.
HargreaTcs, John, Esq. 314; Charlotte

Ann, his wife, 314; John, his son,

314.
Hargreaves, Mr. of Ormerod, 313.
HargreaTcs, Mr. Richard, Curate of

Harwood. 285.
Hai^greaves, Robert Halstead, 327.
HargreTTS, Geoi^ge, 312.
Harper, William, of Liyerpool, 175.
Harrington, Charles, Gent, and Mary

his wife, 177.
Harrington, Dean of York, 282.
Harrington, Hamo, 177.
Harrington, John, of Huyton, Esq. 177*
Harrington, Lord. 497.
Harrington, Lord William, of Aiding-

ham, and Elisabeth Us daughter,

495.
Harrinffton, Robert, son of William,

ana Ann his wife, 180.

596

INDEX.

Harrinton, Sir James, 281, 346.
Harring^n, Sir John, of Uombr, 655.
Harring^n, Sir John de, of Tarleton,

4^,534.
Harrinffton, Sir Robert, of Badsworth

and Hornby, and Isabel his wife,

281.
Harrington, Sir Wm. Standard Bearer

at Azineourt, and Dame Maif^aret,

his wife, 545.
Harrinffton, William, Chief Steward of

HiUton, 210.
Harrison, Cuthbert, 452.
Harrison, Edward, 403.
Harrison, John, 501.
Harrison, Mr. Joseph, Minister of Land,

425.
Harrison, Laurence, 502, 503.
Harrison, Mr. a Nonconformist Minister,

420, 423.
Harrison, Mr. John, Merchant Taylor

of London, 220.
Harrison, Mrs. Catherine, 522.
Harrison, Richard, of Bankfield, 452.
Harrison, Sir John, of Lancaster, 437.
Harrison, Thomas, 225. 269.
Harrock HaU, 373, 374.
Harsnet, afterwards Archbishop of

York, 184.
Hart, William, 186.
Hartford, Earl of, 183.
Hartgraves, a celebrated Schoolmaster

at Burnley, 316.
Hartley, John, 340.
Hartley, Mrs. Alice, of Laund, 327.
Hartley, Piers, Gent. 327.
Hartley, Robert, 309.
Hart's Horn Inn, 309.
Harwood Hall, 278.
Harwood Magna, 284.
Haslam, James, of Falinge, 162.
Haslingden, 322.
Haslingden, Robert de, 332.
Hatch, John, of Preston, a benefactor to

Fulwood School, 435.
Hattock of Com, 172.
Haudley— Hawdley, 276.
Haunton, Roger de, and Margery, 292.
Haut, The, 164, 166.
Haverington, William do, 495.
Haveringge, Richard de. Archdeacon of

Chester, 300.
Haversham, Lord, 405.
Ilaverthwaite Chapel, 510.
Hawell, Richard, 376.
Hawkes, Thomas Esq. 169.

Hawk8head,511,517; originally a Chapel

under Dalton, 518.
Hawkshead Hall, 518, 520.
Haworth, Alexander, 341.
Haworth, Nathanael, 304.
Haydock Lodge, 264.
Haydock, John^Es^. 313.
Haydock, Mr. Wilham, Rector of Stan-
dish, 393, 394. 395, 396.
Haydock, Richard, of Chorley, 364.
Haydock, Sir Gilbert, and Joanna his

daughter, 217, 235, 261, 262. 264,
Haydock, Simon, and Johanna his wife,

313.
Hayhurst, Mr. Bradley, 181, 182.
Hayhurst, Mr. Minister of Maoelesfield,

471.
Hayhurst, Mr. William, 289.
Hayward, Mr. Thomas, Vicar of Gar-

stang, 409.
Healey, near Burnley, 312.
Heapy, 386.
Heapy, Robert de, 382.
Heasantforth. 312, 313.
Heathcote, Sir William, Bart. 222.
Heaton, Robert, of Westleigh, and Mary

his wife, 181.
Helme, Christopher, 422.
Helme, Edward, 403.
Henry, Robert Fits, 200.
Heppewell, Henry de. Lord Boorehier,

363.
Heppewel, Rob. de, and Margaret, 363.
Herle, Mr. Charles, of Winwick,262,270.
Herieahall, 172.
Hescham, 555.

Hesketh, Alexander, Esq. 162, 179, .^53.
Hesketh, Bartholomew, 161, 162, 353.
Hesketh, Bold Fleetwood, 194.
Hesketh, Gabriel, 161.
Hesketh, Hugh, 194.
Hesketh, Monacha, 353.
Hesketh, Mr. of Manor, 418.
Hesketh, Mrs. of Rufford, 367, 370.
Hesketh, Rev. Charles, M.A. 400, 456.
Hesketh, Robert, 194, 355, 530.
Hesketh, Roger, 196, 459.
Hesketh, Sir John, and Alice Fifcton,

366, 367.
Hesketh, Sir Robert, and Sarah his wife,

464.
Hesketh, Sir Thomas, 355, 366.
Hesketh, Sir Thomas Didrymple, Bart.

353, 355, 358, 362.
Hesketh, Sir Thomas George, Bart. 358,

362, 367, 368, 377.

INDEX.

597

Hesketh, Sir William, and Matilda his
wife, 284, 363, 362, 366, 367.

Heaketh, Thomas, 164, 194, 285, 353.

Hesketh, Thomas, Esq. of Rufford, 201,
368, 377.

Hesketh, Thomas, of Aaghton, 162;
Stanly and Birch, his sons, 162.

Hesketh, Thomas, of Walton, 291.

Hesketh, William, 162, 360.

Hesketh, William, a Chantry Priest, 344.

Heskin Hall, 373.

Heskin, Nicholas, 394.

Heskin, Thorstan, 394.

Heton, Sir Alan, and Margery his
daughter, 384.

Hey, Elfis, 270.

Hey, Mr. Thomas, 162, 269.

Heyes, Mr. 174.

Heysam, Church of, given to Lancaster
Priory, 673.

Heysham, Chapel of St. Patrick, 565.

Heysham, Clement Royds Esq. Patron
of, 666.

Heysham, Ecclesiastical antiquities of,
666.

Heysham, Mr. 434.

Heysham, Mr. Greorge Paridnson for-
merly Patron of, 656.

Heysham, Parish of, 556.

Heysham, Robert, of London, his charac-
ter, 434.

Heysham, Thomas Grenewode, Rector of,
666.

Heysham, William, M.P. for Lancaster,
his character, 436.

Heyton, Avicia, 253.

Heyton, Henry de, 223.

Heyton, Robert de, 253.

Heywood, Jane, 186.

Heywood, Thomas, Esq. 225.

Heyworth, William de. Bishop of Lich-
field, 346.

Hibemia, John de, 166.

Hickling, Robert de, 382.

Hiet, James, some account of, 368^ 360,
361, 364, 377, 378.

Higham, William, 421.

Higham, William, of Groosenargh, 428.

Higginson, Richard, of London, 400.

Hill, Mr. Henry, a Chaplain, 202.

Hilton, Richard, of Leigh, 181, 186.

Hilton, Samuel Chethara, 181, 183.

Hilton, Samuel, Esq. 183, 184.

Hilton, Sir Robert de, of Swine, and
Margaret his wife, 667.

Hind, Mr., Schoolmaster of Warton, 660.

Hindele, Adam de, 264.

Hindele, Richard de, 264.

Hindle, Mr. John, 306.

Hindleigh, 256.

Hindleigh Hall, the seat of Sir Robert

Holt Leigh, 266.
Hindley Chajpel, 254, 256, 266.
Hindley, Christopher, Vicar of Ribches-

ter, 473.
Hindley, John, of Hindley, 266.
Hindley, Margaret, 618.
Hindley, Mr. 162, 266.
Hindley, Mr. Robert, 162, 265.
Hindley, Mr. Robert, Rector of Augh-

toD, 266.
Hindley, Thomas, Gent. 266.
Hocton, Adam de, 382.
Hodgkinson. Thomas, of Preston, 466.
Hodgson, Albert, Esq. of Leighton Con-

yers, 563.
Hodgson, Hannah, 437.
Hodgson, William, 366.
Hodson, Jane, wife of Richard Cardwell

Esq. 396.
Hodson, Richard, 385.
Hogg, Mr. John, Minister of LiTerpool,

Hoghton, Adam, son of William, of

Eccleston, 371.
Hoghton, Dorothea, 211.
Hoghton Henry, 196, 289.
Hoghton, Henry Bold, Bart. 196, 291,

366, 382.
Hoghton, Katharine, 472.
Hoghton, Richard, of Euzton, 386, 394^

466.
Hoghton, Sibil, 382.
Hoghton, Sibella, wife of Sir Richard

de 464.
Hoghton, Sir Charles, 382.
Hoghton, Sir Gilbert, 290.
Hoghton, Sir Henry, 290, 292, 296, 424,

463.
Hoghton, Sir Henry Philip, 363, 470,

472, 476.
Hoghton, Sir Alexander, 471.
Hoghton, Sir Richard, 291, 382, 383,

463.
Hoghton, Thomas, 465, 464.
Hoghton, Thomas, of Hoghton, Esq. 290.
Hoghton Tower described, 383.
Holcroft, Edmund, of Dalton Hall, Esq.

492.
Holcroft, Geffrey, 270.
Holcroft, Gilbert de, 265.
Holcroft Hall, 264.

}

598

INDEX.

Holeroft, Henry de, 266.

Holcroft, John, founds a Chantry at

Tunstall, 490.
Holoroft, Margaret, daughter of Thomas,

JSm. wife of Sir Richard Standish,

Holcroft, Margaret, wife of William de

Raddyfie, 265.
Holeroft, Sir John, 266, 447, 675; his

Will, 269.
Holeroft, Richard de, 666.
Holeroft, Sir Thomas, 287, 667,673, 676.
Holeroft, Thomas, Esq. 676.
Holden, Adam, 332, 334.
Holden, Andrew, 334.
Holden, Betty, wife of Henry Green-
wood, Attomey-at-Lsw, 332.
Holden Choir, 333.
Holden^ Gilbert de^ 332, 334.
Holden Hall, 334.

Holden, Henry, tii Holden, Esq. 3S2.
Holden, John, Esq. of Bolton-le-Sands,

648.
Holden, Mary, daughter of John, of

Palace House, &2.
Holden, Ralph, 3^ 334.
Holden, Rauf, Abbot of Whaller, 339.
Holden, Rev. Beig., Rector of Staveley,

and Dorothy Hopwood, his wife, 334.
Holden, Robert of Holden, Esq. and

Martha his wife, 332, 334.
Holden, Sir John, Curate of Haslingden,

333.
Holden,'Thomas, of Todd Hall, 334.
Holgate, Elisa and Amelia, 313.
Holgate, Robert, and Ellen his wife, 313.
Holker Hall, 498, 499, 600, 604.
Holland, Elizabeth, daughter of Wil-
liam, and sister of Edward, wife of

Sir John Egerton, 266.
Holland, Castle of, 260.
Holland, Joan, daughter of Sir Robert,

384.
Holland, Marnret, daughter of Mr.

Adam, of r«fewton, 372.
Holland, Margery, 384.
Holland, Maud, 268.
Holland, Monastery of, 166, 268.
Holland, Priory <^ 166, 166, 181.
Holland, Richard, 206, 208.
Holland, Rob. de, 226, 406, 660.
Holland, Sir Adam de, 406.
Holland, Sir Richard, of Denton, and

Ameria his wife, 266.
Holland, Sir Robert de, 164, 166, 166,

181, 268, 292, 384, 406, 676.

Holland, Sir Thurstan de, 660.

Holland, Thomas, Earl of Kant, 668.

PloUinfare, alias HolUufernr, 239.

Hollingfare, a Chantry, 239.

HolUns Hall. 304.

HoUinshead Hall, 297.

HolUnshead, R. B. Esq.

Holme, Edward, 219.

Holme, Hugh, of UphoUand House, 249.

Holme, Meyrick, 2^.

Holme, Randle, 171.

Holme, Rot. John, of Blackburn, 281,

283.
Holme, Rot. Mr. 311, 319.
Holme, Rev. Thomas, 249.
Holme, The, in Cliviger, 334, 386.
Holsworth, Thomas, 394.
Holt, Alexander, of Little Mitton^ 478.
Holte, Francis, Esq. 477 ; Alice his wife,

daughter of Jonn Greenhalgh, Esq.

477.
Holt, James, of Gristlehmrt, 250.
Holt, Mr. 394.
Holt, Mr. Edward, 262.
Holt, Mrs. Jane, of ShcTington, 394.
Holt, Preston, of Meariey, Esq. 312.
Holt, Thomas, 478.
Holte, James, Esq. of Castleton Hall,

233.
Holte, John, of Stabbvlee, Esq. 478.
Holte, Mr. John, of Sbrewsbuiy, 477.
Holte, Robert, of Castleton, Esq. 285.
Holte, Sir Thomas, of Grislehnrst, 469,

476.
Holte, Thomas Posthnmus, Esq. 477,

478.
Holyne-greene, 239.
Holyrood Palace, 167.
Honorius, Archdeacon of Riehmeiid, 518.
Honorius, Pope, III. 618.
Hooker, Richard^22.
Hoole, or Much Hoole, 376.
Hopwood, Dorothy, 334.
Hopwood, John, of Hopwood, Esq. 3S4.
Hopkins, Dr. of Warton, 567.
Hopkinson, Mr. John, of Aniley, 305.
Hornby, Edmund, Esq. 413.
Hornby, Hugh, of Liverpool, 417.
Hornby, Joseph, of Ribby HalL Esq.

423, 424, 449.
Hornby, Mr. John, of Kirkham, 419.
Hornby of Poulton, 437.
Hornby, Rot. Hugh, Vicar of St. Mich-

aePs, 449.
Hornby, Rev. John James, Rector of

Winwick ; his Sermon on the re-

INDBX.

599

opening of his Chnreh ; hia libe-
rality, 263.

Hornby, Her. William, Vicar of St.
Michael's, 449, 4A0.

Hornby, Tbomaa, Esq. 437.

Horrockfl, Mr. John, his character, 326.

Hotham, Mr. Charles, Rector of Wigau,
246.

Hotheraall Hall, 475.

Hoagh Hall, near Wigan, 248, 249.

Hough, John, Yeoman, 361.

Houghton, Nicholas, Carate of Altham,

Houghton, Thomas, 466, 469.
Houghton Tower, Heir of, appoints the

Pftrish Clerk of Ribchester, 473.
Howard, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, 288.
Howe, Earl, 307, 330.
Huddleston, Adam de, 286, 287.
Huddleston, Miles, Esq. of Whitting-

ton, 492.
Huddleston, Mr. 491.
Huddleston. Sir Richard de, 286.
Hudson, John, 452.
Hudson, John, of EUerbeck Esq. 395.
Hudson, John, of Lea, 455.
Hull, Kev. John, Curate of Walton-le-

dale2292, 294.
Hulme, William, of Hulme and Rears-

lev, Esq. 301, 323, 330, 331, 462,

Hnlton, DaTid de, 275.

Hulton, Jane, daughter of Christopher,

of Famworth, 464.
Hnlton, Richard, 275.
Hulton, William de, 275.
Hunter, John, 522.
Hunter. Mr., a King's Preacher in Lan-

eashiie, 233.
Huntingdon Hall, 476, 478.
Huntingdon, Sir Heni^, Priest, 281.
Huntroyde, 344.
Hnrstwood, 312.

Hussey , John, Warden of Battelf ylde,450
Hutt, 164, 166.

Hutton, John, of Marske, Esq. 560.
Hution, Matthew, Esq. 559.
Hutton, Sir Timothy, 560.
Hutton. Timothy, Elsq. 560.
Hutton's, Archbishop Matthew, School

and Hospital, 559. 560.
Hntton's, Dr., Collections, 464.
Huyton, 177.
Huyton Hey Hall, 179.
Hyatt, Mr. James, Rector of Croston,

355.

Hyet, Mr. James, 356.

Hynd, Thomas, of Overton, 437.

Hynd, WUliam, 406, 441.

Ince Blundell Hall, 218.

Ince Hall, near Wunin, 248, 249.

Ingham, John, of Whalley, 316.

Ingham, Mr., Curate of Coppnll, 396, 397.

Ingham, Mr., Curate of Goosnargh, 411.

Ingham, Silvester, 465.

Ingham, Sir Robert, Clerk, 316.

Inman, Thomas, of Silverdale, Esq. 557.

luskipp School, 451.

Ireland, Edward, Esq. 174.

Ireland, Eleanor,dattgliter of Sir Thomas,

215 239.
Ireland,' Gilbert, Esq. 215, 232, 233, 239.
Ireland, Laurence, 162.
Ireland, Philippa, Duchess of, 404^ 448.
Ireland, Sir Gilbert, 167, 231.
Ireknd, Sir John, 166, 174.
Ireland, Sir Robert, 166.
Ireland, Sir Thomas. 231, 235.
Ireland, Thomas, of Beausy, Esq. 231,

232.
Ireland, Thomas, of Grfty's Inn, Esq. 233.
Isherwood, Nathaniel, of Bolton, and

Mary his wife, 315.
Isherwood, Thomas Bradshaw, 315.

Jackson, John, of Preston, 283.
Jackson, Lettice, widows, 341, 342.
Jackson, Mr. Richard, Rector of Whit-

tington, 492.
Jackson, Thomas, of Crimbles, 406.
Jacques, Mr. John, Vicar of Bolton le

Sands, 548.
Jacson, Geoxge, Esq. of Barton Lodge,

469.
Jacson, Mr. Geoige, of Preston, 469.
James the First's ^Regulations" for the

King's Preachers, 233.
Jenkinsou, Robert, Merchant Tailor, of

London, 473.
Jenyns, Mrs., daughter of Lady Moyer,

504.
Joanna, Countess of Kent, 292.
Johnson, Alan, of Wakefield, 301.
Johnson, Alexander, Esq. 449.
Johnson, John, 393.
Johnson, Mr., Patron of St. Michael's,

448,450.
Johnson, Rev. Croxton, 301.
Johnson, Rev. William, of Whalley,

301, 303.
Johnson, Thomas, 394, 397.

600

INDEX.

Johnson, Thomas, of the Acres, 186.
Johnson, Thomas, Rector of Halsall, 173.
Johnson, William, Yeoman, 370.
Johnston, George, citizen of London,

197.
Jolly, Mr. Thomas, Minister of Altham,

308.
Jolly, Timothy, 315.
Jones, Mr. Sunnel, 378.
Jumps, the name of a CkMtt, 269.
Juxon, Archbishop, 276, 278, 279, 301,

307, 309, 318, 320, 323, 325, 329, 332,

350.

Kay, Mary, daughter of Roger, wife of

Robert Nuttall, 306.
Kay, Mr. Neville, Vicar of Walton, 223,

230.
Kay, Mr. Richard, of Woodhill, 306.
Kay, Rev. Roger, Prebendary of Sarum,

305,334.
Keck, Anthony James, of Stanghton

Grange, M.P., 368; JSlixabeth Legh,

his wife, 368.
Keck, G. A. Legh, Esq. 359, 368, 377.
Keene, Bishop, 215, 241, 301.
Kellet, Adam de. 550.
Kellet, Chapel of, 548, 550.
Kellet, Gilbert de, 479.
Kellet, Groditha, daughter of William,

son of Orm de, 480.
Kellet, Orme de, 550.
Kellet, Over, 550.
Kellet, William de, 479.
Kempe, John, Archbishop of York, 431.
Kenoale, Deanery of, 547; united to

Lonsdale before 1291, 547.
Kendidl, Thomas and Christopher, 322.
Kenion Hall, 264, 265.
Kenion, Jordan de, 265.
Kennett, Dr. 464.
Kenricke, James and Robert, 205.
Kent, Richard* of Liverpool, 168.
Kenwolmersh, William, Lord Chancel-
lor, 456, 458.
Kenyon, Adam de, 265.
Kenyon, Ameria, wife of Sir Richard

Holland of Denton, 265.
Kenyon, Ann, 304.
Kenyon, Misses, of Swinley, 248.
Kenyon, Mr. Roger, Minister of Accring-

ton, 304.
Kenyon, Mr. William, Minister of

Hawkshead, 519.
Kenyon, Mrs. Alice, 303.
Keppel, F. Walpole, Esq. 409, 413. I

Kershaw, Alexander, of Heskin Hall,

360, 373.
Kershaw, James, Clerk, 342.
Kershaw, John. 342.
Kershaw, Ralph, 360.
Kershaw, Sir John, 343.
Kertmell, 566.
Kidd, Mr. John, 220.
Kiddson, Mr^ Minister of Hornby, 486.
King, Dr. John, Bishop of London,

252.
King, Thomas William, Esq. F.SJk.,

York Herald, 220.
Kinge, Mr. John, 402.
King's Preachers for Lancashire, 233.
Kinsman, Rev. Arthur, executor of Rev.

Henry Halsted, 316.
Kippax, Rev. Richard, of Burnley, 309,

316, 335.
Kirby Irelith Chapel, 515.
Kirby Irelith, 524; etymology of, 524.
Kirby, Mr. John, 524, 526.
Kirkby, Agnes, 526.
Kirkby, Alexander de, 525.
Kirkby Chapel, 229.
Kirkby, Colonel Roger, 525.
Kirkby Cross destroyed, 526.
Kirkby, George, Gent. 450.
Kirkby Hall, 526.

Kirkby, Henry, of Cross Hall, and Mar-
garet his daughter, 541.
Kirkby Ireleth, Vicar of, 516.
Kirkby Ireleth Vicarage, 515, 524.
Kirkby,John de, autli^r of the Inmteit

of Yorkshire, 525.
Kirkby, Roger de, 525.
Kirkby, Roger, Esq. Impropriator of

Hawkshead, 520, 526.
Kirkby, Sir Richard, of Kirkby, 448.
Kirkby, WiUiam, Esq. of KirkW 525.
Kirk^, William, of AshsUck, Esq.

Kirkham, 399, 414, 449; the Church

given to Lancaster Priory, 573.
KirklandHaU,410,411.
Kitchen, John, of Hatfield, and Pilling

Ht^, Esq. 413, 568.
Knolle, Isabel, daughter of John, married

Roger Sherburne, 401.
Knolle, Richard de, 401.
Knolls, Vicar of Bolton le Sands, 550.
Knott, Mr. James, Minister of Broughton,

467.
Knowles, one, of Sowerby, 421.
Knowles, Thomas, of Sowerby, 451.
Knowsley, 177, 200.

INDEX.

601

Knovtley, Katherine, daughter of Tho-
mas de, 200.
Kaerden, Dr. 352, 364, 382, 439.
Kyghley, Richard, 245.
Kyneyers, Robert de, 563.

Lach, William, 276.

Lacy, Alice, daughter and heiress of

Henry, 298, 317.
Lacy, Edmund de, 309, 343, 471.
Lacy, John, 359.
Lacy, Ilbert de, 298, 317, 328.
Lacy, Robert de, 304, 309, 317.
Lacy, Roger, 300, 318, 379, 388.
Laoy, Walter de, 571.
Laithwayte, William, Alderman, 251.
Laitns, Anthony, Esq. Impropriator of

Kirkby Ireleth, 525.
Lambehith Manor, 542.
Lambert, Mr. Joseph, 514, 515.
Lambert, Mr. Joseph, of Kendal, 565.
Lambert, Thomas, of Kendal, Esq, as-
sumed the surname of Fenwick, 480.
Lamp-light, an old tenure, 576.
Lancaster a Roman Station, 429.
Lancaster, a Saxon Church, 429.
Lancaster, Agnes, widow of William, 408.
Lancaster, Blanch, Duchess of, 317, 430.
Lancaster Castle, 429.
Lancaster, Cliartulary of, 547.
Lancaster, county, made a Palatinate,

430, 461.
Lancaster, Edmund, Earl of, 399, 426,

430, 675.
Lancaster, Gundrada, 404.
Lancaster, Henry, Duke of, 164, 191, 313,

317, 328, 336, 430, 441, 449, 574.
Lancaster, History of the Duchy of, by

Seijeant Fleetwood, 429.
Lancaster, Hospital of St. Leonard, 574.
Lancaster, John of Gaunt, Duke of, 191,

317, 430, 462, 574.
Lancaster, Ughts for the Church of,

483.
Lancaster, Prior of, 518.
Lancaster, Priory of, 170, 398, 399, 414,

415, 426, 431, 456, 483, 547, 573.
Lancaster, Roger de, 534.
Lancaster, 8t. Mary ol 216,353,395,431,

534.
Lancaster, Thomas, Earl of, 317, 387,

474, 575; Alice his wife, 317.
Lancaster, Warine de, 161.
Lancaster, William de, 372, 403, 404, 408,

409, 535, 540, 557, 567, 568.
Lancaster, William, of Goosnargh, 428.

Langdale, Marmaduke, Lord, 220; Fran-
ces his dauifhter, 220.

Langho, 286; discovery of a Kist-vaen,
286; tradition of a battle there, 286;
Whitaker's unsuccessful explora-
tions, 286.

Langho Chapel, built of materials from
Whalley Abbey, 287.

Langho, Manor, 286.

Langley, Mr. James, 380.

I^<^?l®y» 'Thomas, Bishop of Durham,143.

Lango, 286.

Langton, in the county of Leicester, 255.

Langton, Abraham, 257.

Langton, Cornelius, of Kirkham, and
Elizabeth his wife, 419.

Langton, Gilbert, of Lowe, 255.

Langton, James de, 244, 245.

Langton, Jane, wife of Laurence Raws-
tome, 468.

Langton, John de. Clerk, 243, 245.

LangtoD, John, son of John de. Clerk,
243,245.

Langton, Joseph, of Liverpool, Esq. 468.

Langton, Mary, 383, 392, 394.

Langton, Mr. 467.

Langton, of Kilkenny, 250.

Langton, of Lowe, 255.

Langton, Ralph de, 244, 281, 290, 291.

Langton, Richard, and Philippa his wife,
250.

Langton, Richard, of Lowe, 250.

Langton, Richard de, 244.

Langton, Richard, Rector of Wigan, 245.

Langton, Robert de, 243, 244, 250, 255,
262, 273.

Langton, Robert, of Lowe, 255.

Langton, Roger, of Broughton Tower,
466, 468; Maivaret his wife, 466.

Langton, Roger, of Chester, 467.

Langton, Sir John de, and Alice, 243,
283.

Langton, Sir Heniy de, 291.

Langton, Sir Thomas, 243, 245, 291.

Langton, Thomas, 243, 245.

Langton, Thomas, CapelL 245.

Langton, Thomas, of Kirkham, Esq. 416.

Langton, Walter, Bishop of Lichfield,
276, 299, 300.

Langton, William, M.P. 466, 468.

Langtree, Mr., of Scarbrick^ 418.

Lapp&ge, Mr. Edward, Minister of New-
church, in Pendle, 339.

L'Arbalastier, Galfri^ ancestor of the
Sherbumes of Stonyhurst, 422, 443,
444.

4h

Uthkffl, William, 372.
lAthom, Edirard, of Farbold, 373.
Lstiiain, HeuiT, of Mouborrow, 213.
Lktbom, Mr. Paul, Rector of Standiih,

392,39fi.
Lathom, Mrg. EUrabeth, 393, 3»4.
Lathom, Robert, 168.
Lathom, Robert de, 184.
lAthom, Sir Ttumui, and Iiab«lU hi*

heinu, 164,177,200.
Lathom, Thomas, of Parbold, 168, 170,

373.

Lathom, WiUiom, 393.
lAtbom, William and Ann, 170.
Latbain, Rotwrt d«, 177, ITS, 213.
lAtimer, William Lord 203.
Latm, Ferdinand, and Elizabeth hii

daughter, 641.
LatDi, John ODd William, MO.
lAud, Archbishop of Canterbniy, 277,

303, 3Sfi, 358.
Lannd, Moiia5t«Tjof,2II.
I^nrence, Sir Jamei, 406.
Lsnnnoe, Sir John, 441.
Law, Edmund, Biihop of Carliik, 600,

606.
Law, Rev. Mr., of Atkham, in Watt-

morelaod, brtj-nine jean Cnrateof

Staveley. 606.
lAwriaion, Nioholai, Gent. 460.
Iawsod, Mr.,a bene&ctor to Aughton in

Halton, 664.
Lawton, Mr. of Preseott, 214.
Laffield, Dr. Charles, aome aeeonnt of

him, 367, 361.
Layfield, Edward, Arohdeaeon, 368.
I*yfield, Mr., of Crarton, 353.
Lajboume, Bishop, 434.
Lay boom, Jamev, a Lancaihire Recn-

nuit,433.
I«7biUTi, William, Gent. 433.
Lea Hall, 464.
Lea, Henrv de, 464.
Lea, SibilU, wife of Sir Riohard de

Hoehton, 464.
Lea, William de, 464.
Loadboater, Rev. HeniT,36S.
Leadbeater, Williara, 267.
Lea^ Mr. John, Vioarof TanatoU, 491.
Leek, ftlias Overleke. 491.

I Lee, Alice, wife of Thomai Aibton of

CnM(on,362.
I Lee, Henrr do, 406.
' Lee, Mr. 628.
Lee, Sibil, wife of Sir Rioliard H<vhtaD,

Lee, Sir Henry, 382.

Lee, Sir William de, 388

Lee, William del, and lulda, 353.

Legay, Samuel, Esq. a bene&ctor to

Cbildwall, 166.
l..-i,. I .:ward,336, 517.
I ., _■! . [ ;.«twood, Esq. 368.
I,.lI.. '.ibertdBlajSSe.
l.,.'l,, M:Lbella, wife ofPetep.Esq. 480.
LcL'h, ,Miidam,of Bank, 370.
Leeli, M i-., of Bank, 269.
Lcgli, -M f. of Lime, 233, 26B, 479.
I^gl,, M «. H. M., of Bank, 368, 369.
Lcsh, Uliver, B.C.L, 369.
\.<.-.zh, I'fter, 236, 241, 271, 3*8.
l..-^li, l'i»n,ofBiRih,236,242.
J.'.';jli, l(<iT. Aahbnmham, and Mortba

Aiiri hia daughter, 314.
Legh, Richard, of Lyme, Eaq. 271, 36S,

480.

261,264,266,3: .

Lwh, Tbomoi, Esq. 236, 241,264,271,
273.

Lerli, Thomai, at Bank, 201, 271.

Leicester, Robert Dadley, E^l of, 290.

Leicester, Roger do, 660.

Leigh, 180.

Leigh, Dr. 324.

Leigh, Edward, of London 263.

Lrigh, Edward, of the Abbe^, 259.

Leigh, Edmund, and AmabiUa hia wife,
363.

Leigh, Holt, of Whitley Hall, Esq. S63.

Leigh, Mr. William, Miniiter of New-
church, S70.

Leigh, Jobn, of SaDdhilla, 222.

Leigh, J. a, Esq. 222.

Leigh, Right Honourable Thomas Pem-
berton, 267, 260.

Leigh, Sir Robert Holt, Bart. 266, 260.

Leigh, William, BS). 206, 393.

Lench, or Lenchea, William, 2!

Lconi, the Architect, 211.

LGTer, Half. 364.

Lewit, Rot. William, of Childwall. I6S.

Leybun. Mr. 433.

INDEX.

603

Leylftnd, Manor and Hundred. 379.
Leyland, Ralph, of Little Hoole, 379.
Leyland, Riohard BuUen, 222.
Leyland, Thomas, 185, 222.
Leyland, Thurstan, of Ckyton. 386.
"Liber Kccleaiie de WhaUe7/303.
Licence for non-residence granted, 246.
Lichfield, Roger, Bishop of, 197,231, 243,

244, 247, 261, 276, 323.
Lidiate Abbey, 174.
Lidiate, Benedict de, 173.
Lidiate Hall, 173.
Lilford, Lord, 181, 182, 189, 231.
Lincoln, Earl of, 313, 417.
Lincohi, Henry, Earl of, 298, 299, 304,

318, 319, 335, 363.
Lincoln, John Lacy, Earl of, 27^ 284.
Lin daiy , Lindale, 504.
Lindley, Abbot of Whalley, 298.
Lindsey, Walter de, 408.
Lion, John, 207.
Lisle, Arthur, Yisoonnt, 509; Frances

his daughter, 509.
Lister, Thomas, of Gisbum Park, Esq.

337.
Litherland mxta Halsall, 161.
Littlewood Hall, 358.
Liverpool, 190.
Liverpool, Castle of, 190.
Liverpool, Corporation of, 190.
Liverpool, John de, 191.
Liverpool made a Parish, 191, 192.
Liverpool, two Rectors of, 191.
Lizoars, Robert de, and Albreda, 317.
Livesey HaU, 278, 297.
Livesey, Henry de, 296.
Livesey, James, 296.
Livesey, John, 283.
livesey, Ralph, 296.
Livesey, Ralph, of Livesey, Esq. 297.
Livesey, Robert Bell, 296.
Livesey, township of, 296.
Lofwic, William, son of Robert de, 540.
Lomaz, James, of Clayton Hall, Esq. 284.
Lomaz, John, Esq. 284.
Longfield, James, Curate of Downham,

330.
Longrid^e Chapel, 474.
LongueviUiers, Margaret, daughter of

Sir John de, wife of OeofErey de

Neville, 482.
Longworth, James, of Liverpool, 371,

384.
Longworth, Richard, Esq. Bailiff of Gar-

stang, 412. «

Lonsdale, Deanery of, in Lancashire, 479.

Lonsdale, George, son of Mr. John, 304.

Lonsdale, Henry, of Field House, Esq.
228.

Lostock, Dom. Robert de, 244.

Low Hall, 248, 250.

Low, James, 273.

Lowchurch, or Law, 289.

Lowick Chapel, 540.

Lowther, Sir Thomas, of Holker, 572.

Lowther, Sir Thomas, 504, 511.

Lowther, Sir WiUiam, 501, 511, 572.

Lowther, Sir William, of Marske, and
Katherine his wife, 499.

Lowton and Golbome constituted a Rec-
tory, 262.

Level, Francis, Viscount, 258.

Level, Giles, Prior of Lancaster, 431.

Lovel, John, fifth Lord, 258, 292.

Lovel, Lord, of Tichmersh, 292; of Hol-
land, 292.

Level, Lord William, 181, 182.

Lovel, Sir John, 181, 292.

Loxam, W. 389.

Loxham, Mr. Thomas, 465.

Lucy, Joan, daughter of Alice, wife of
Ranulf de Dacre, 555.

Lumley, Mr. 414.

Lumley, Lord, Patron of Wharton, 558.

Lumley, Sir Marmaduke, 558.

Lumley, Sir Robert de, and Lucy his
wife, 557.

Lund, alias. Crags, Richard, 404.

Lund Chantry, 424.

Lund Chapel, 424.

Lyme's, Oliver, Almshouses, 206.

Lynacre, Thomas, M.D. 245.

Lyndesey, Christiana de, 403; wife of In-
ffelrom de Ghisnes, 404, 408.

Lynasey, Walter, son of WiUiam de,
657.

Lyndwood, William, author of the Pro-
vinciale, bom in Lancashire, 429.

Lyon, John, 168.

Lytham, 446.

Lytham Cell, 447.

Lytham Hall described, 447.

Lytham Priory, a Cell to Durham, 574.

Lythgoe, Matthew, 186.

Macclesfield, Fitton, Earl of, 174.
Michael's, St. 339 ; a Saxon Parish, 409,

448.
Machel and Y If, 403, 634.
MacheU, James, of Hollow Oak, EU^.

537 ; his son John, 637 ; Isabella his

wife, 637.

604

INDEX.

Machell, John, an Impropriator and
Patron of Finsthwaite, 610.

Machell, John, and William his son,
purchasers of Conishead, 569.

Machell, J. Penny, "Em, 543.

Mackerell, Robert, Ohantiy Priest of
Lancaster Hospital, 432.

Madderer, Robert, Official of the Arch-
deacon of Chester, 359.

Maghall, 175.

Magholl Hall, 175.

Marholl, 175; pronounced MaiL 175.

MaghuU, WUUam de, 175.

Maffole, 175.

Mamam, Heniy, 337.

Mallinson, Mr. John, 177.

Man, Henry, Bishop of, 527.

Man, Olave, Lord of, founder of Rushen
Abbey, 571.

Manchester, Grelle, Warden of, 169.

Manchester, Lord Bishop of, 450.

Mancknolls' family, 328.

Manknowles, Mr. Laurence, of Town
House, 328.

Mansei^h, Thomas, of Borwick, 561.

Mansei^h, William and Daniel, 561.

Mantle and Rin^, 281.

Mareschal, William, 497.

Mareschal, William, the elder, Earl of
Pembroke, 498, 566.

Maijoribanks, Sir John, Bart. 345; Janet
his daughter, wife of Robert Shuttle-
worth Esq. 345.

Markham, Bishop, 496.

Markland, James Heywood, Esq. D.C.L.
335.

Markland, Jeremiah, 169, 502.

Markland, John, 502.

Markland, Mr., of Pemberton, heir to
Mr. Walthew, 259.

Markland, Oliver, 252.

Markland, Ralph, Alderman of Wigan,
251.

Markland, Ralph, Esq. M. P. 260.

Markhmd, Rev. Ralph, Vicar of Child-
wall, 166 ; a letter of his, 169.

Markland, Robert, 259.

Markland, Sir William, and Elizabeth
his daughter, 216.

Marsden within Colne, 336.

Marsden, Elisabeth, wife of the Rev.
Sandford Tatham, 483.

Marsden Hall, 337.

Marsden, Henry, Esq. 483.

Marsden, James, 297.

^larsden, John, of Wennington, Esq. 482.

Marsden, Mr. Robert. 320.

Marsden, Rev. Mr. of Walton, 206.

Marsden, Rev. Thomas, and Eliaabeth
his wife, 223, 224, 228.

Marsh, John, of Bold, 209.

Marsh, Thomas, 170.

Marshall, James, 259.

Marshall, Mr. William, Vicar of Lan-
caster, 432.

Marshall, Mrs. Marearet, 199.

Marshall, Mr. Nicholas, M.A. 545.

Marshall, Thomas, 544.

Marshall, William, 546.

Marsshall, Guide, 344.

Marsshall, John, LL.B. 343.

Marsshall, Richard, 344.

Martholme Hall described, 285.

Martin, James, Vicar of Preston and
King's Preacher, 234.

Martin, William, of Preston, 465.

Marton, Greorge Richard, Sheriff of Lan-
cashire, 550.

Marton, George, of Capemwray Hall,
M. P. 431, 550.

Marton, Oliver, Esq. 550.

Marton, Rev. Oliver, 431, 550.

Maryons, Wyon de, 313.

Mascy, Francis, Esq. 232.

Mascy, Huffh, of Tatton, 232.

Mascy, Sir Hamon, 232.

Mason, Alderman, 252.

Mason, Francis, 253.

Mason, Henry^ Clerk, of London, sOme
account of, 252.

Mason, Mr., Vicar of Hawkshead,' 518.

Mason, William, 365, 366, 394.

Massey, Francis, 232. ^

Massey, Richard, 239.

Massey, Thomas, 180.

Massey, William, of Rixton, 239.

Massie, Dr., Rector of Wigan, 246.

Master, Charles L^h Hoslnns, Esq. 362.

Master, Dr. RichaH, has a Leiase of the
Tithes of Cartmel, 498; some ac-
count of him, 499.

Master, Legh, M. P. 354.

Master, Lieut. Colonel W. Chester, of
Knole Park, 499.

Master, Margaret, daughter of Dr. Pilk-
ington, diS2.

Master, Rev. J. 8. 363.

Master, Rev. R. M. of Royle, 315, 370.

Master, Robert, D.D. 354, 356.

Master, Sir Streynsham, 362.

Master, Streynsham, D. D. 353, 354, 362,
370.

[

INDEX.

605

Mather, Mr. Samuel, 238.

Mather, Mr. Thomas, 566.

Matthews, James, Vicar of Whalley,
303, 311, 319.

Maude, Thomas Holme Esq. and Eliza-
beth his wife, 417.

Maudesley, Adam de, 359.

Mandesley, Robert, Esq. 360, 373.

Maudesley, Thurstan, 280.

MauliTerer, Isabel, daughter of Sir
Richard, 279.

MauliTerer, Sir Richard, 279, 295.

Maunsel, John, Rector of Wigan and
Lord Chancellor, 242, 243.

Mawdesley, Henry^ 280.

Mawdesley, Mr. Richard, 207.

Mawdesley, William, Es^. 175.

Mayfield, John, of Staynmg Hall, Gent.
458.

Mayor, Robert, 549.

Meales, 194.

Meales, Hugh de, 381.

Meales, Rol^rt de, 194.

Meales, William de, 381.

Mearley Great Hall, 310.

Mediolanum — Milaine, 429.

Meles, William de, Coroder of Leyland
Church, 379.

Melinge, 176.

MelUer, Richard, 514.

Melling, 176, 481.

Mellinges Church giyen to Lancaster
Priory, 573.

Meols, North, 194.

Mercer, Andrew, 227.

Merclesden, 336.

Merelesden, Richard de, Clerk, and Ro-
bert his son, 336.

Merclesden, Robert de, 313.

Mere, Isabel and Isolda, 353.

Mere, Sir John de la, 353.

Merivall Abbey, 163.

Meschines, Ranulph, founder of Cocker-
sand Abbey, 568; and of Calder
Abbey, 571.

Meuland, Roger de. Bishop of Lichfield,
307.

Middlemore, William de, and Margery
his wife, 335.

Middleton, Colonel George, 563; Mary,
daughter and heiress of Sir George,
wife of Somerford Oldfidd Esq. 563.

Middleton, Geoffrey, Esq. and Alison
Croft his wife, 563.

Middleton Hall, 417.

Middleton, Jane, 171.

Middleton, John, 529, 531.

Middleton, Mr., 480.

Middleton, Sir Robert, of Leighton, and

Ann his wife, 427.
Middleton, Sir George, Knt. and Bart.

558.
Mildmav, Sir Walter, 279.
Milne, Mr. Richard, senr. of Milnrow,

350.
Milner, John, and Mary, of Colne, 225,

226.
Mitchell, Mr. of Heptonstall, 325.
Modie, Richard, a converted monk, 392.
Molines, Edwud, Rector of Walton,

222.
Molines, John, Esq. 362.
Molines, Sir Adam de, 176, 229.
Molines, Sir Thomas, 222.
Molines, Thomas, 371, 379, 406.
Molines, Vivian, 176, 216, 229.
Molines, William des, 216.
Molyneux, Adam, 167, 216.
Molyneux, Adam, Bishop of Chichester,

216, 219.
Molyneux, Alexander, 225.
Molyneux, Anthony. 216.
Molyneux, Charles William, tenth Vis-
count, 224.
Molyneux, Charles, eleventh Viscount,

216.
Molyneux, Edmund, 249, 259.
Molyneux, Edward, of Garston, 168.
Molyneux, Gilbert, of HawUey, Esq.

and Joanna hia daughter, 375.
Molyneux, Hon. Richard, 177.
Molyneux, James, Archdeacon of Rich-
mond, 216.
Molyneux, Caryl, Lord, 162, 218, 382.
Molyneux, Lord, 163, 371, 384, 546.
Molyneux, Margaret, 216.
Molyneux, Richard, second Viscount,

176, 178.
Molyneux, Robert, 176.
Molyneux, Sir Richard, 164, 178, 216,

217 219 373.
Molyneix, ^ir William, 167, 216, 217,

219, 224, 362, 384.
Molyneux, Sir Vivian, 225.
Molyneux, Thomas, of Pemberton, 251.
Molyneux, William, Viscount, 177.
Mohun, Lord, 407.
Mohun, Lord Charles, 173.
Monk, Elizabeth, wife of Curwen Raw-

linson, 509.
Monk, Nicholas, Bishop of Hereford, 509.
Monk, Sir Thomas, of Potheridge, 509.

606

INDEX.

Monk, ThomM, and Fnoiees PUtnta-

genet, his wife, 509,
Montagu, Edward, first Lord, 484.
Montaga, Duke of, 535.
Montagu, Goorge, Duke of, 309.
Montagu, Lord. 317.
Montagu, Ralph, Duke of, 309.
Montbegon, Adam de, 482.
Montbegon, Henry de, 482.
Montbegon, Nicholas de, 484.
Montbegon, Roger de, 377, 440, 482, 487,

489,573.
Monteagle, Lord, 487.
Monteagle, Lord Edward, 482; his Will,

486; Ann his wife, 432.
Monteagle, Lord Morlej and, 488.
Monteagle, Sir Thomas Stajilej, Lord,

486.
Monteagle, Thomas, Lord Morley and,

482.
Monteagle, Thomas, second Lord, 483,

569.
Monteagle, William Parker, Lord Mor-
lej and, 655.
Mont^le, William, third Lord, 482;

Elizabeth, his daughter and heiress,

482.
Moor Hall, 162.
Moor, Mr., 553.
Moor, Sir Edward, 191.
Moore Rental, 225.
Moot-hall of Wigan, 246.
Mordaunt, Charles Lewis, 173.
Mordaunt, Greneral, 173.
More, Mr. George, Minister of Calk, 184.
More, Sir Cleve, 224.
More, Sir Peter de la, 224.
More, Sir Edward, 224.
More, Sir Thomas, 491.
More, Sir William. 224.
More, William de la, 224.
Moreton, Bishop William, 217.
Moreton, Dr. Edward, some account of,

217.
Moreton, Mrs. 217, 220.
Morleys, 183, 184.
Morley, Lord, 482, 483, 484, 486.
Morley, Robert, 289.
Morley, Thomas, 289.
Morres, Mr. Henry, Minister of Bum-
ley, 310.
Morris, Thomas, of Heapy, 385.
Morritt, Bacon, of York, Esq. and

Anne, 537.
Morritt, J. B. Sawrey, of Rokeby, Esq.

537.

Mort, Adam, 186, 187, 188, 189.

Mort, Ann, 186, 187.

Mort, Thomas, 187. 188.

Morton, John, Earl of, 387, 426, 444, 446,

487, 574.
Mosley, Mrs. Mary, 280.
Moss, Richard, 200.
Mossocke, Henry, of Allerton, 168.
Mossokes, The, 174.
Mossock, Thomas, of Heatonhead, and

Anna, 181.
Moton, Walter de, 476.
Moton, William de, 476.
Moulins in France, 216.
Moyer, Lady, 504.
Muckelt, Greorge, 504.
Mulgrave, Constantino, Baron, 525.
Multon, W. of Whittingham, 475.
Mnncaster, Baron of, 6&.
Muncaster, Lord, 532.
Murray, Lord Henr^, 168.
Murray, Richard, his son, 169.

Naprlour, Mr. 180.

Neighbour-row, Churchwardens returned
by, 558.

Nevile, Geoffrey de, 482.

Nerile, John, Lord of Raby, and Eliza-
beth his wife, 203.

Nevile, Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert,
wife of Sir William Harrington, 482,
545.

Nerile, Margaret de. Duchess of Exeter,
482.

Newborough School, 201.

Newchurch constituted a new Rectory
and Parish, 270.

Newchurch in Culcheth, 269.

Newchurch in Pendle, 338.

Newchurch in Rossendale, 340.

Newton Hall, 273.

Newton in Makerfield, 271; the Chapel,
oriffinally called Rokeden, 271; re-
built by Richard Legh of Lyme MJP.
272.

Newton, the Church of Emanuel consti-
tuted the Parish Church and Rec-
tory of, 273.

Nicholson, Alice, of Bartel, widow, 455.

Nonant, Hugh de, Bishop of Licnfield,
293.

Norcross, William, 474.

Norman, Mr. Thomas, 272.

Normoles, 194.

Norres, Ann, daughter of Thomas, 185.

Norres, Margaret, 185.

INDEX.

607

Norres, Robert, of Bolton, 185.

NorreB, Sir William, 177.

Norreys, Alan le, 167.

Norreyg, Sir Henry, 167.

Norris, Catherine, 169.

Norris, Edward, 166, 169.

Norris, Hugh de, 249.

Norris, Mary, 167.

NorriB, Mrs. 206.

Norris, Mrs. Margaret, 164, 166, 170.

Norris of Speke, Lodge's Pedigree of,
203.

Norris of Satton, Lodge's Pedigree of,
203.

Norris, Thomas, Esq. 363.

Norris, Thomas, of Speak, 164, 166, 167,
169.

Norris, Sir William, M J». 169.

North, Frederick, Esq. 346.

North, Joan, Abbess of Sion, 429.

North, Miles, of Kirkby Lonsdale, Esq.
4^

North, Richard, Esq. 492.

North, Richard Toulmin, Esq. 489, 491.

North Meals, 194.

North Meals Hall, 196.

Northcott, Mr., Minister of Derby Cha-
pel, 226.

Nowell, Alexander, Esq. 284, 344.

Nowell, Christopher, 32i2.

Nowell, Colonel, 286,

Nowell, Dean, 294.

Nowell, John, Esq. 286, 289.

Nowell, Laurence, of Mearley, 344.

Nowell, Roger, 286.

Nuttall, Christopher and Lydia, 342.

Nnttall, John, father of Lydia, 342.

Nattall, Robert, Esa. 306, 306.

Nuttall, Robert, of Kempsey House Esq.
306.

Nuttow, John, 341.

Oakes, Eliabeth, 264.

Ogles, Barons of Bothill, 204.

Oldfield, Oeorge Middleton, Esq. 663.

Oldfield, Sir Philip, of Somerford, 663.

Oldfield, Somerford, Esq. 663; Mary his
wife, daughter of Sir Oiorge Mid-
dleton, Bart. 663.

Oldham, Rev. John, owner of WycoUer,
327.

Orrell, Charles, Esq. 204.

Ormerod, Geoige, Esq. 186, 314.

Ormerod, George, of Ormerod, Gent, 314;
Agnes his daughter, 314.

Ormerod House, 312, 314.

Ormerod, Laurence, Esq. of Ormerod,
314; hia daughter Charlotte Ann,
and wife Martha Ann Legh, 314.

Ormerod, Mr. 316.

Ormerod^ Rev. Oliver, 314.

Ormeschirche, 196.

Ormskirk, 196, 197.

Osbaldeston, Alexander, Esq. 376.

Osbaldeston, Dame Elena, 283.

Osbaldeston, Edward, 282.

Oshaldeston, Elisabeth, 281.

Osbaldeston Hall described, 282.

Osbaldeston, John, 281, 383.

Osbaldeston, Mr., of Sunderland, 283.

Osbaldeston, Richard, 281.

Osbaldeston, Sir Alexander, 277, 283.

Osbaldeston, Thomas, 282, 381.

Oswaldwisle, 322.

Oswaldwisle, Philip de, 322.

Otway, Braithwaite, Esq. 660.

Otway, Dr. Charles, 660.

Otway, Sir John, of Ingmine, 660.

Oughton, Richard, Merchant of Liver-
pool, 409.

Overburrow, anciently called Breme-
tonacsB, 489.

Overleke, or Leek, 491.

Overton, 441.

Overton, alias Waterville, 442.

Overton, Chapel of, 673.

Owen, Thomas, of Bispham, 267; Mary
his daughter, 267.

Padiham, 343.

Padium, 343.

Padua. 343.

Paget, Right Hon. William, 669.

Parbold Hall, 373.

Park, Catherine, wife of Richard, 292.

Parker, Archbishop, 294, 646.

Parker, Edward, Esq. 327, 337.

Parker, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas,

of Browsholme. wife of Alexander

Butler of Kirkland, 461.
Parker, Captain, and Elizabeth Banastre

his wile, 382.
Parker, John le, 327.
Parker, John, of Bradkirk, Gent. 418.
Parker, John, of Extwisle, 313, 314.
Parker, Mr. of Alkincoats, 326.
Parker, Mr. John, of Holden Clough,

316.
Parker, Mr. John, of Kirirby Ireleth,

631.
Parker, Robert, Esq. 311, 31^ 327, 382.
Parker, Robert, of Carlton, 846.

608

INDEX.

Parker, Robert, of ExtwialcL 312.
Parker, Robert Townley, Esq. 314, 365,

366,382.
Parker, Tbomas, of Astle, Esq. 194.
Parker, Thomas, of Browsholme, Esq.

327.
Parker, Thomas Gronlbam, Esq. 327.
Parker, Thomas Lister, Em. 327, 347.
Parker, Thomas Townley Esq. 314, 365,

366,382.
Parkins, Edward, 327.
Parkinson, Christopher, 402, 437, 438.
Parkinson, Edward, of Uazlehorst, 439.
Parkinson, J. 188, 422.
Parkinson, James, of Blindhnrst, 439.
Parkinson, Laurenoe, 421, 422.
Parkinson, Mr. George^ Patron of Heys-

ham, 556.
Parkinson, Rev. Canon, 438, 439; his

Life of Rev. Robert Walker, 530.
Parkinson, Rev. Robert, 439.
Parkinson, Richard, and William, 438,

476.
Parkinson, Thomas, of Chipping, 403.
Parr, Ann, 189.
Parr, Dr., consecrated Bishop of Man,

372.
Parr, Edward, of Wood, and his wife

Margaret, 372.
Parr, John, and Ann his daughter and

heiress, of Cleworth, 184.
Parr Hall, 204.
Parr, Mr. 213, 214.
Parr, Mr. Richard, Rector of Eccleston,

372.
Parr, Sir Thomas, 204.
Parr, Thomas, of Warrington, 236.
Parrs, Barons of Kendal, 204.
Partivants, Richard, 403.
Paslew, Abbot, 275, 300.
Patten, Dorcas, daughter of William,

242.
Patten, Dorothea, 210.
Patten, John Wilson, Esq. M.P. 232,

236.
Patten, Mrs. 241.
Patten, Peter, 210.
Patten, Thomas, Esq. 194, 210, 222,

236.
Patten, William, of Warrington, Mer-
chant, 242.
Paulinus' Crosses at Whalley, 298, 309.
Paul's. Dean of St., 454; some account

of him. 454.
Pearson, Bishop, 166, 243, 475.
Pearson, Dr., Chancellor of York, 224.

Pearson, John, Yeoman, 386.

Pearson, Rev. Robert, Incumbent of

Mihirow, 241.
Pfdder, Rev. James, 409.
Peel Castle, in Walney,5I7.
Peel HaU, 265.
Peel, John, 339.
Peel, Jonathan, Esq. 306.
Peel, Sir Robert, Bart., 323.
Pemberton, Sir James, Lord Mayor of

London, 373, 374.
Pembroke, Isabel, heiress of Richard,

. Earl of, 567.
Pembroke, William, Earl of, 566.
Pendle Cross, 339.

Pendle Forest, and Witchcnfi, 339.
Pendle HaU, 344.
Pendle Hill, and Geo. Fox the Quaker,

339.
Pendle, Newchurch in, 338.
Pendleton HaU, 320.
Penketh Hall, 20^ 234.
Penketh, Jordan do, 204.
Penketh, Roger de, 204.
Penketh, Thomas, D.D. (205.
Pennington, 532.
Pennington, a Chapel, 532, 645.
Pennington, Baron Muncaster of, 632.
Pennington, Castle of, 633.
Pennington Churoh robuilt, and Goorge

I Y. a contributor, 633.
Pennington, Grabriel de, Knt. 668.
Pennington, Gramel de, 632.
Pennington HaU, 183.
Pennington, Joceline de, Abbot of Fnr-

ness, 632.
Pennington, Richard de, 183.
Pennington, Robert, 181.
Pennington, Sir John de, 632.
Pennington, Sir William, Bart. 632.
Pennington, Vicar of, 516.
Pennington, William, Esq. 658.
Pennington, William, of Finsthwaite,

610.
Penny, Alderman William, of Lancaster,

436 ; his Ahnshouse, 436 ; his WUI,

436-7.
Penny-Bridge HaU, 536.
Penny, IsaMla, daughter of James, wife

of John Machell, Esq. 637.
Penny, James, an Impropriator and Pa-
tron of Finsthwaite, 510, 637.
Penny, Mary, wife of Riohard Townley,

Esq. 537.
Penny, Mr. Lord of Seathwaite, 529.
Penny, William, Esq. 630, 636, 643.

INDEX.

600

Penny, Willuun, aenr., and William,
junr., 609.

Pennyg, Two Mr., 507.

Penwortham Cell, 387.

Penwoitham Church, 387.

Penwortham Hall and Priozy, 388.

Penwortham Manor, 387.

Penwortham Monastezy, 380.

Peploe, Mr., Viear of Preston, aids in
the endowment of Warton ChapeL
^7; and in the boilding of Fulwood
School, 435; and in bnilding and
endowiDg St. Georgei's Chapel in
Preston, 4^; his son not fonrotten
by him, 468; his Letter to Sishop
Uastrell, and »al in bnilding and
endowing Grimiargh Chapel, 470.

Pepiwrd, Henry, of Drogfaeda, Esq. 220.

PerdTall, Riehard, of liTerpool, 168.

Perry, Rebecca, daughter of Sir Hugh,
wife of Sir Bobert BindloBS, 561.

Pesfurlong Hall, 265.

Petie, H^rr, Esq. of Dunkenhaigh, 283,
^9o, 3ZZ, 324.

Pickering, Marouet, daughter of James,
wife of Bicnard Butler of Bawcliffe,

AAA '

Pickering, Mr. 230.

Pickering, Mr. Robert, Bector of Cros-
ton,357.

Pictayeniis, Boger, 165.

Picup, J.,Esq.306.

Pigot, Geoffirey, 350.

Pigot, Geoige, Esq. 481.

Pigot^ HenxT, 352.

Pigot, Judith. 351.

Pigot, Bey. Henry, B J). Bector of Bzin-
dle, notice of; 350.

Pigot, Thomas, 351, 352.

Pib of Fouldrey, 517, 527.

Pilkington, Dr. James, Bishop of Dur-
ham, 435.

PiDdngton, James, 269, 357.

Pilkington, Mr. 353, 368.

Pilkington, Mr. WiUiam, Bector of Cros-
ton, 357, 362; Margaret his daugh-
ter, wife of Bey. S. Master, 362.

Pilkington, Sir John, and Lady, 281.

Pilling, 413.

Pilling HaU, 413.

Pilling ancient Chapel, 413.

Pilling modem Chapel, 414.

Pilling, the Manor of, 413.

Pimlot, John, 314.

Pimlot, Mary, 315.

Pimloty Wil&am, Esq. 814.

Pincema, Almeric, 215, 230.

Pincema, Hamo, 371» 382.

Pincema, William, 230.

Place, Isaac, Curate of Haslingden, 334.

Pleasington Hall, 278.

Pleasington, Henry and Bobert de, 278.

Plomb, Mr. 162.

Plumbe, John. Esq. 162.

Plumbe, Sarah, wife of Thomas Winck-
ley, Esq. 464.

Plumbe, VAUiam, of Wayertree, Esq.
464.

Plumpton Hall, m Ulyerstoni 536, 537.

Plumpton, Henry, 212.

Plumpton, J. 212.

Poietiers, Earl of, founder of Lancaster
Prioiy, 573.

Poietiers, Boger of, 190, 456, 461, 482,
483,495.

Poictou, Boger of, 170, 176, 297, 353, 371,
379, iaS, 399, 400, 414, ^6, 430, 431,
547, 552, 555.

Pontefiract, Prior of, 326.

Pool, Bichard, 445.

Pool, William. Esq. 235.

Pooley, Captam Bichard, 484^ 486.

Poolton Church appropriated to Lan-
caster Priory, 458, 573.

Poolton in the Fjrlde, 456.

Port. Sir John, of Etwall. and Elizabeth
his daughter, 262, 349.

Porter, Bichard, of Lamberhurst in
Kent, Esq. 377.

Porter, William le, 503.

Postlethwaite, WiUiam, yeoman, 544. .

Preedy, Benjamin, DJ>. 344.

Preedy, Charlotte, wife of L. G. P. Star-
kie, Esq. 344.

Prees, or de Pratis, 405.

Prees Hall, 417.

Prees, Monastery of, 403, 404.

Prees, William de, 417.

Prescot, 203.

Piescott, 203.

Prescott, Mr. Henry, 246, 259, 319.

Prestkote, 203. ^^

Preston, 399, 449, 461. ^

Preston, a Royal Manor, 461.

Preston, Adam de, 313.

Preston, antiquity of the Grammar
School of, 464.

Preston Chapel dedicated to St. Geoige,
466.

Preston Church giyen to Lancaster Pri-
ozy, 461, 573 ; afterwards to the Col-
lege of Leicester, 462.

4i

610

INDEX.

Preston, ChxiBtopher, of Holker, Esq.

511.
Preston, George, of Holker, Esq. 498,

567.
Preston Guild Merchant, 463.
Preston, Hospital of St. Maiy Magda-
lene, 575.
Preston, John, Esq. 546.
Preston, John, of Preston Patrick, 511,

513, 572.
Preston, Katherine, wife of Sir William

Lowther, 499, 511. 572.
Preston, Monastery of the Grey Friars,

575.
Preston, Mrs. Anne, 501.
Preston, Sir John, 496, 511, 512.
Preston, Sir Thomas, Bart. 511, 513,

572.
Preston, the chief seat of the Palatine

Ck>arto. 461,
Preston, Tnomas, ''a Papyste AtheiBte,"

517.
Preston, Thomas, Esq. a Protestant,

572.
Preston, Thomas, of HoUcer, M.P. 499,

500.
Preston, William de, Chaplain of Bay*

ley, 474.
Preston of Preston, 575.
Price, Mr. Francis, Vicar of Blackhnm,

276, 280, 286, 287.
Proctoor, Mr., 434.
Pofl^ Mr. A. W. 198.
Polley, Richard, 562.
Poltney, Daniel M. P., 454; his Por-
trait, 454.
Palton,399,573.
Pye, William, Gent. 472.

Qoalleye, 300.

Radcliffe, Adam de, 322.

RadclifFe,Ann,187,411.

Radcliffe, Earl of Sossez, 323.

Radcliffe, Joan, 295.

Radcliffe, John, of Radcliffe Tower.

323.
Radcliffe, Maigaret, 282.
Radcliffe, Richard de, 275, 281, 295, 319,

322,411.
Radcliffe, Robert, Baion Fitzwalter, 265,

323.
Radcliffe, Robert, of Radcliffe, 187.
Radcliffe, Roger, Gent. 281 .
Radcliffe, Samuel, of Brasenose, 225.
Radcliffe, Sir John, 296, 307.

Radcliffe, Sir Richard, 320; Katherine

his wife, 320.
Radcliffe, Sir Thomas, 265.
Radcliffe, Sybil, wife of Richard, 319.
Radcliffe, William, 322.
Radcliffe, William, of Wimmersley, 187,

319,411.
Radcliffe, William, Rouge Croix, 295.
Raddyff, Alys, of Thalleys, 322.
Radclyff, Thorn's, of Wymn'legh, 322.
Radclyffe, William de^ of Raddyffe

T«)wer 265.
Radley, Mr. William, of Salfoxd, 392.
Rainford, 213.
Rainford, Edward, 214.
Rainford, Gallery built, and Chapel re-

buUt, in 1758 and 1781, 215.
Ramside, Ramstead, Rampside, 514.
Ranicars, John, of Atherton, 184^ 254.
Rant, Roger, 355.
Rasbotbam's, Mr. Doming, MSS. 189^

217.
Batcliffe, Honourable Thomas, son of

Lord, 288.
RawcUffe Halls, Upper and Out, 450.
Rawcliffe School, 451.
Rawlinson, Christopher, son of Curwen,

504,509.
Rawlinson, Dr., the Antiquary, 504.
Rawlinson, John, of Greenhead, 509.
Rawlinson, Mr. 522.
Rawlinson, Mr. D., Vintner, 523.
Rawlinson, Mr. Daniel, Esther of Sir

Thomas, 518, 519, 521, 533.
Rawlinson, Robert, Vice-Chanoellor of

Chester,504.
Rawlinson, Sir Thomas, 504^ 518.
Rawlinson, Thomas, Esq. of Graithwaite

LowHalL522.
Rawlinson, WiUiam, of Greenhead, Esq.

504, 507; Maigaret his wife, 504.
Rawstome, Laurence, Es^. 388, 390, 467,

468; Jane Langton, wife of Laurence,

468.
Rawstome, Lieut. Col. 387, 388.
Read HalL 344; rebuilt by Richard Fort

Esq. the purchaser, 344.
Redmayn, A<utm, 563*
Redmayn, Elizabeth, sister of John, wife

of Roger Croft, 563.
Redmayn, Matthew de, 563.
Reet, Mr. Richard, of Wigan, 244.
Reinfrid, GUbert Fit^ 409, 534^ 657;

Helewise his wife, 534.
Relic, a Norman, in Croston Church, and

the Vicar's receipt^ 355, 364.

INDEX.

611

Remarks on English Churchss, by J. Q.
Marklaiid Esq. 335.

Ribblechester, 429.

Ribchester, an ancient city, 471 ; a Roman
fortress, 471 ; full of interesting Rod-
man relics, 471 ; now a yillage, 471 ;
at Domesday, included in Whalley,
471; an appropriation of the See of
Chester, 472; the Manor of, 471 ; two
Chantries in the Church of, 472.

Rice, James, 221.

Richardson, Ann, 180.

Richardson, Thomas, 270r

Richardson, William, Reader and School-
master of Blawith, 538.

Richmond, Archdeacon of, 457, 465, 489,
511, 533, 535, 547, 548, 573.

Richmond, Archdeaconry of, 566.

Richmond, Margaret, Countess of, 211,
544.

Richmond, Mr., Rector of Liyerpool, 408.

Richmond, Mr., Rector of Walton, 408.

Richmond, Mr. Richard, Rector of Wal-
ton, 228.

Richmond, Mr. SiWester, 409.

Richmond, Mr., Vicar of Garstang, 407.

Richmond. W., Archdeacon of, &&.

Riddell, Eidward, of Swinburne Castle
Esq. 439; Dorothy his wife, daugh-
ter of Robert Dalton of Thumham,
439.

Ridley, Rev. T. Y. 556.

Rigby, or Ribby cum Wray, 426.

Rigby, Alexander, Esq. 363, 373, 374,

Rigby, Edward, of Burgh, 363, 395.

Rigby, General, 417.

Rigby, James, M.A. 323.

Rigby, John, of Middleton, Esq. 375.

Rigby, Mr. Thomas, M.A., of Broughton

in Fumess, 529.
Rigby, Mi«. Abigail, 433, 473.
Rigby, Nicholas, of Harrock, jun. 201.
Rigby, Rey. Adam, 373, 375.
Rigbye, Captain Rigbye Baldwin, 374.
Rigbye, Eleanor, 374.
Rigbye, Rey. John Baldwin, 374.
Rigbje, Thomas, 374.
Rigmayden, Joan, wife of Sir John de

Coupland, 448.
Rigmayden, John de, 448.
Rigmayden, Walter, of Wedacre, 411.
Ripon Church and Monastery, 399.
Rippon, John, 549.
Risley Hall, 265.
Risley, John, Gent. 266.

Rishton, Edward, Esq. 305; Lucy Pigot
his wife, 305.

Rishton, Geoffrey, Esq. of Antley^ 305.

Rishton, Mr. H., Curate of Accrmgton,
305,324.

Rishton, Rev. Edward, of Mitton, 306.

Rishton, Rev. George, of Halton, 305.

Rishton, Robert de, 322.

Rixton Chapel, within Warrington
Church, 232.

Rixton HaU, 234, 236.

Rixton, Katharine, daughter of Alan, 232.

Roades, Mrs. Frances, 474.

Robertson, Rey. Joseph, Vicar of Horn-
castle, 507.

Robinson, John, of Barley, 340.

Robinson, John, of Finsthwaite, 510.

Robinson, Margaret, daughter of Ed-
ward, 344.

Robinson, Mrs., now Nowell, 344.

Robinson, Rev. Josias, M.A. 344.

Robinson, Richard, of Euxton, 372.

Robinson, Richard, of Finsthwaite, 510.

Robinson, Richard, of Waterside, 510»

Roe, Thomas, Gent. 450.

Rogertson, Greorge, of Preston, Gent. 465.

Rogertson, J. 465.

Robertson, W. 465.

Rokedene Chapel, 262, 263.

RomanuflL Joim, Archdeaoon of Rich-
mond, 399, 431, 456.

Roote, Ann, 410.

Ros, William de, 557.

Roscoe, William. Esq. 168.

Ross, Col. Malcolm, 187«

Ross, Harriet Susanna, 327.

Rossall, 458, 459.

Rossall Hall. 400.

Rosse HaU, 398.

Rossendale, account of the Forest and
Chace, 340; of the Chapel formerly
caUed ** Sedenayse." 340, 341.

Rossendale, Newohuroh in, 340.

Rotheram, Archbishop, 320; his College^
321.

Rothwell, James, of Hoole, Eeq. 467*

Rothwell, Mr. 472.

Rothwell, Mr. Richaid, 2ia

Rothwell, Mr. William, of Leyknd, 380.

Rothwell, Rey. James, 218.

Rothwell, Rey. Richard, 218.

Roule, Sir Richard, Reader of Coniston,
540.

Rous, Ralph le, 328.

Rowe, Sir William, 364.
I Rowley, 312, 313.

612

INDEX.

Bo7d«» doBMnt. of Mount Faliiigo. Eiq.

666.
Boyle, 312.

Bnffoxd Hall deteribed, 368.
Rnfford GhApelir made a Pariah, 367.
Roffoid Manor, 366.
Biiffoith,366.
Bohlee, 313.

Bonie inicription on Chipping Font, 402.
Buflhen Abbey, in the lue of Man, aome

aeeonnt of, 671.
Bnshton, Balph, of AnUey, 806.
Bnahton, Robert, of Dnnniahope^ 306.
Biuland Chapel, 610.
BoBsin, 671.

Byeroft, Mr. William, 327.
Byder, Mr. John, 263; some aeeonnt of

him, 264.
Byding, Richard, 289.
Bygmaden, 408^ 673.
Byley, John, Priest of Bomley, 312.
Byley, Mr. John, 472.
Byl^, Mr. John, Beetor of Crostoxi, 367.
Byley, Mr. Thomas, Corate of Lund, 426.

Sacheverell, Dr. 464.
Sager, Mr. 313.
Baflsbnxy Hall, 278.
Salebury, Award de, 279.
SaUsbnry, Maraoess of, 166^ 168^ 226.
Samlesbory, 292.
Bamlesbury Hall described, 294.
Samlesbury, Cicely, 294.
Samlesbory, Elisabeth, 294.
Samlesbnzy, Gospatrio de, 292, 293.
Samlesbory, Margery, 294.
SamlesboiT, Sir William de, 292.
Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, 282.
Sanders, Thomas, Clerk, Minister of Bos-

sendale, 341.
Sands, Adun, a benefiietor to ConUon,

608.
Sands, Captain. 607, 609.
Sandys, Archbishop, 607. 608, 620. 626;

constituted Hawkshead a Parish

Church, 618; William and Margaret

his parents, 619; Samuel his son,

620, 621.
Sandys, Barbara, wife of Miles Philipson

Esq. 669.
Sandys, George, the Poet, 622.
Sandys, Margaret, wife of Miles Dodding,

Sandys, MilesJBsq. 621, 622.

Sandys, Mr. Thomas, of Kendale, 623,

ays,
624.

Sandys, Ber. Tlloolal^ of St. JaaMa^a,

We8tminster,621.
Sandys, William, of Colton Hall, Eaq.

669; Francis his son, 669.
Sankey,216.
Sankey Magna, 216.
SankeyParva,216.
Sankey, Gerard de, 216.
Sankey, Balph d^ 216.
Sapieha» Prince BWaeeu 19^ 211.
Saterthwaite Chapd, 628.
Saterthwaite, Thomas, 621.
Savage, I3k«i, daiumter of Sir John,

and wilb oif Sir Peter L^ of Lyme^

262.
Saridge, Biehard, 868.
Sarign^ MonastMy of, 670.
Sawrej, Ann, daughter of William, wilSi

of Bacon Morrttt £eq. 637.
Sawrey, CoUonel, 628.
Sawrey, Henry^ senr. and junr., 621.
Sawrey, Jeremiah, and Susanna his wifo,

628.
Sawrey, John, of Brougfaton Tower, Esq.

829. '
Sawrey, John, of Graithwaite Low Hall,

S22.
Sawrey, John, of Plumpton Hall, 637.
Sawrey, John C. G., Esq. 628.
Sawrey, John Gilpin, Esq. 628.
Sawrey, MUes, 62z.
Sawrey, Biehard Gflpin, Esq. 628.
Sawrey, Boger, Chamberlain of Toik,

Sayes, Henry, Abbot of, 482.

Sayes, St. Martin de, 673.

Scarisbrick Hall, 198.

Scarisbrick, Charles, 37L 376.

Scarisbrick, Henry, and Isabel his dangh-
ter, 161.

Scarisbrick, James, Esq. 161.

Scarisbrick, Thomas, of Eocleston, Esq.
173, 198, 204.

Scarsdale. Baron. 307.

Scholfield, Jonatnan, BAinister of Dong-
las, 376.

Schoolcroft, Mr., Curate of Gaton, 439.

Scbter, Mrs. Margaret, 330.

Scrop, Sur Geoffirey le, 286.

Scrop, Thomas, 286.

Seabroke, Mr. James, of Liverpool, 264.

Scales, Bobert, of Finstiiwaite, 610.

Seathwaite Chapel, 629.

Seeker, Archbisnop, 301,

Sodden, Mr. William, Minister of Fen-
wortham, 388.

8mL ThomH Uolriieiix Untwortb, Eaq.

^178, 180.
Seftou Hall, 318, 219.
8«f(on, third Earl a( 216.
8«Uet Hall, 492, 4&3.
SepbtoD, 216.

Sephtou Chnnih deMiibfd, 216.
■ferrice BilTM-," 603.
Setoo Priorj, in CamtMrluid, 074.
B«well, Ber. F. H, Viou of Cookerium,

378.
EBideria7,lb.246,M7.
Sbakeriey, Sr OmAwt, 186.
HmipIm, NiehoUi. ^.
Bhmoek, Tlionu&a49, SSO, 366.
Shaw, AnthoBTtOf Ototou, SSC.
Sliaw, Conliffiti, Etq. 4&.
Bbaw,OeotK^394.
Shaw, John, 394.
Sb»i^ LanimM, Tiear of Coekariiam,

Shmir, Mr- a bcoeflHtor to Cartual FsU

Ch>p«l eOI, 603.
Slun^ Mr.Thomai, Beetor of Aldin^um,

Shxw, B«T. Samael, Reetor of Wuring-

ton, 233: mum aecomrt of bin, W,

237,3^01fi.
Bbaw, TownloT RJebr, Em. 417,
Shaw, William, «S.
Shaw, WiDiam CnnliiFa, Eaq. 433.
Sheaiion, Thomu, £m. 434.
Sheldon, Dr. Oilbort, Arohbiibop of Can-

tariMin, 263,319.
Sholley, ^ John, Bart., 464; FraDoei

wWUbv hig wift, 464.
Sberbtimb Elinbeth, wifo of William

Weld, 288, 401.
Sberbnme, Ungb, 474.
Sh^rame, Jolu, 4^.
Shertnmw, Maria, danghtar of & Niobo-

la>,BartS88.
SbartmriM, Mair, DaeheH of Norfolk,

469.471.
SherboriM, Hv., of Gootnargh, 428.
Sherbnnw, Hn. 466.

Slwrbnme, Bonr, third ion of Botwrt,

401; Iiabel Knolla bii wife, 401.
Sherfasme, Sir Bkbard, 288, 304, 363,
471.
lerdler, Jamei, 381.
lerloei, Blebwd, DJ).,
Reetor of Winwiek, S

Bberiook, Blr Thoma^ 294,
Shitton, Thomai, of unoaiter, 406.
Bbinborn, Sir Niebolai, of Btonvhiint,

288, 422, 423, 469, 460.
Shirethead, 407.
Sblrethead Chapel neorend from the

Diuentert, 407.
Sbire-ride, 407.
Showier HaU, 278.
Sbrewtbnrr, Abbej of, 414.
Bbrewtbnr;, Dnte of, 177.
Bhnttlewordi Hall, 344. 34S.
Bbnttlewortb, Ann, daughter of fiiehard,

2S8.
BhnnlBworth, Kortwood, wife of Biobaid,

H J. 469.
SbotUeworth, Hsnrv de, and Agne*. 288,

346,466.
Shuttleworth, Jane^346.
Bhuttleworth, J. P. Kaf, Em. 346.
Shuttleworth, Mr., Vioar ol Kirhham,

416.
Sbattleworth, Nicholai.Eto. 449.
Bbnttlawortb, Biehard, of Bedfbrd. and

Franoea 181, 182.
Shuttleworth, lUebard, of Gawthoipe,

3^4(^481.
ShDtttswortb, Robert, of Barton Lodge,

346. 4«9.

346.

. Mitnnn

Cartmel MoDBitery, 063; Hr. ^_
Idnion'i Letter to Gaitnll, 664; a
Curaiiy eutirelj witboot inoome, 664,
666.

Simnel, Lambert, 627.

Siuip'oii, Mr. JamsL 603.

;:^iiigli!t<'Ti, Craat, ^3.

Singlot»iiIiJl,417.

t;iiiglotoTi Thorpo, 469.

t^mgletiin, Alan da, 417.

Kiii^lotmu, Alan, ton of BJcbard do. 476.

Sinf/letoii. {filbert de, 467.

Siiiglvtuit, Jrunei, of Staining, Eeq. 469.

Singleton, .lobn, of Binirleton, 364, 417.

tiin|,'lHt(.i>, niohard, of Brongbtou, ^7.

t'mKh.ti.ii, Uobert,464.

e^ini^Muii, Thoma*, Gent. 417,464.

Siuc, ALLoaaof, 666.

Sioo, Abba; of, 666, 673.

Sion, St. Bridget of, 67^

Sizsmith, Robert, 2G2.

SkelnurMlale, fbrmeilf a Ohnreh tfaere,

m.

614

INDEX.

Skelmendale, Baron, 176.201.202.268,

35.9, 382.
Bkjpton, James, Cellerer of Cockenand

Abbev, 667. .
Slater, John, 549.

SmaUwood, John, of Hattyheath, 162.
Smethunt, Mr. Richard, Minister of

Samlesbury, 293.
Smith, Baldwin, 212.
Smith, Bishop William, notice of, 211.
Smith, Christopher, 328.
Smith, Edward, of Gunscongh, 176.
Smith, John. 225, 226, 484.
Smith, Matthias, 212.
Smith, Mr. Nicholas, Rector of Tatham,

487.
Smith, Mr. Thomas, Vicar of Cookerham,

405.
Smith, Mr. Timothy, 214.
Smith, Mrs. of Preston, 466.
Smith, Rev. Mr. 438.
Smith, Sir Thomas, Mayor of Chester,

212.
Smith, Sir Thomas, of Hough, 212.
Smith, Thomas, 424.
Smith, Thomas, of Edge. 328.
Smith, William, of CiUcheth, 270.
Smith, WiUiam, of KeUet, 651.
Sonkey, Roger de, 216.
Southworth Hall, 266.
Southworth, some account of the family,

266, 267.
Southworth, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas

Cottam, 278.
Southworth, Ellen, wife of Robert Urs-

wick, 448.
Southworth, Jane, 295.
Southworth, John, Esq. 292.
Southworth, Sir Gilbert, 292.
Southworth, Sir John, 294, 296.
Southworth, Thomas, Esq. and Johan

his wife, 294.
Southworth, Thomas, of Samlesbury, 278.
Southworth, William de, 448.
Spakeman, Richard and Katheriue, 186.
Speak HaU, 166.

Speed, Mr, Hugh, of Chester, 496.
Speke, some account of, 167.
Spencer, Hon. WiUiam. 409.
Spencer, William, Lora, 400.
SpofFbrUi, Richard, Vicar of Dalton, 612.
St. Bees, Prior of, 618.
Stadaghe, Laurence, 467.
Btadaugh, Laurence, 468.
Staineton, Mr. John, Curate of Ramp-
side, 514.

Staining Hall, 468.

Stalmine, 443, 573.

Stalmine, John de, 443.

Stalmine, Adam de, 443.

Stalmine, Elena de, widow, 443.

Stalmine, Robert and William de, 443.

Stalmine, William le, 573.

Stalmyn Chapel, 431,433.

Stananought, Edward, 378.

Standish Hall, 392, 394.

Standish, Adyowson of, 390.

Standish Manor, 390.

Standish Parish, 390.

Standish, Cecilia^ wife of William Towne*

lev, 391, 661.
Standish, Charles, of Standish, Esq. 391,

394, 410.
Standish, Dame Jane, 366.
Standish, Edward, 391.
Standish, Edward Towneley, 169, 391.
Standish, Henry, Bishop of St. Asaph,

394
Standish, Hugh, 393.
Standish, Joanna, 427.
Standish, John, Imighted by Richard II.

391.
Standish, Jordan de, 391.
Standish, Lady, 409.
Standish, Margaret, daughter of Sir

Thomas Holcroft, win of Richard^

386.
Standish, Marvaret, daughter of Sir

Thomas, wife of Anthony Hall, 393,
Standish, Mr. James, of Duxbury, 365,

386.
Standish, Ralph, 386.
Standish, Ralph, in the Rebellion of 1716,

390, 392, 561.
Standish, Richard, of Duxbury, Esq. 386.
Standish, Robert, Rector of, 300.
Standish, Sir Frank, Bart. 385, 393.
Standish, Sir Richard, 386.
Standish, Sir Rowland, 355, 364.
Standish, William S., Esq. 266, 386, 393.
Stanley, Ann, wife of Sir Edward, of

Himby, 482.
Stanley, Barbara, daughter of Sir Ed-

waid, wife of Rev. Zachary Taylor,.

419.
Stanley, Col. Edward, 198.
Stanley, Edward, Esq. 198.
Stanley, Edward, Lora Monteagle, 482.
Stanley, Edward, of Bickerstaffe, Esq.

197.
Stanley. George, Lord Strange, and the

Lady Jane, 277.

INDEX.

615

Stanley, James, D.D. Biahop of Ely, 482.
Stanley, John, of Melling, 482.
Stanley, Lady Henrietta Maria, 202, 261.
Stanley, Lord, 417.
Stanley, Margaret, wife of William, Esq.

281.
Stanley, Mrs. Mary, 465.
Stanley, Peter, of Aughton, 162.
Stanley, Sir Edward, 282.
Stanley, Sir Edward, Bart. 261.
Stanley, Sir James, 198.
Stanley, Sir John, 164; Isabella his wife,

164,177,179,191,213,261.
Stanley, Thomas, Bishop of Sodor, 246.
Stanley, Thomas, Lord Monteagle, 439,

440.
Stanley and Stranre, James, Lord, 226.
Stansfeld, Maiy, aaiurhter of William,

of Eoxton, wife of Dr. Seth Bushell,

442.
Stansfeld, Oliyer de, 313.
Starkey, Jane, 186.
Starkey, Mn. 324.
Starkey, Rey. James, 196.
Starkie, Alice, 329.
Starkie, Edmund, of Huntroyd, 329, 344,

346.
Starkie,' John, 184^ 339, 343, 484; Ann

his wife, 184.
Starkie, Le Gendre, Esq. 344; his wife

Charlotte, 344.
Starkie, Le Gendre Nicholas, Esq. 344,

354.
Starkie, Le Gendre Piers, Esq. 184, 343.
Starkie, Mr. James, Vicar of Preston,

463.
Starkie, Mr. William, 343.
Starkie, Nicholas, 184.
Starkie, Pierce, Esq. 311, 343.
Starkie, Thomas, Esq. 329.
Starkie, Thomas, of Twiston, 329.
Starkie, William, of Bamton, 344.
Staundon, William de^ 307.
StaTeley, 505.
Stephenson, Mr. John, Curate of Eirkhy

Ireleth, 515.
Stidd, a Parish and Rectory, 477.
Stidd Chapel, 476.
Stidd Hal^ 476.

Still, Mr., Minister of Gressingham, 440.
Stirrup, John, 273.

Stockport, Ciceley, sister of Robert, 455.
Stockport, Robert de, 454; Joan his

danghter, 454.
Stones, John, Esq. 377.
Stones, Mr., Clerk, of Walton, 223.

Stones, Mr. John, of Carr House, 376,

377, 378.
Stones, Mr. Thomas, 377.
Stonyhurst described, 288.
Stopford, James, 465.
Stopford, John, 361 ; David his son, 36L
Storrs Hall, 485.
Stout's, William, M.S. Journal quoted*

434,435.
Strange, Lord le, 363.
Stratford, Bishop of Chester, 240, 244,

256, 318, 515, 564.
Stratford, Dr. William, Canon of Christ

Church, Oxon. 535.
Stratford, William, Esq. 453 ; Bishop

Gastrell's Secretary, 535.
Strickland, Thomas, of Sizergh, Esq. 391.
Strickland, Walter, of Sizergh, Esq. 561.
Sudell, Mr. Christopher, Rector of Hay-
ton, 179; Rector of Holy Trinity,

Chester, 465.
SudelL James, a Woollen Draper, 465,

Sudell, Mr. John, of Blackburn, 280.
Sudell, Rev. William, Vicar of Leyland,

385.
Sudell, Roger, 465.
Sudell. WOliam, Gent. 275.
Suffolk, Duke of, 183.
Suffolk, Henry, Duke of, 495, 534, 537.
Sunderland, Lord, 287.
Sussex, Earl of, 567.
Sutch, William, 200.
Sutton, Thomas, 187.
Swainson, John, Esq. of Halton Hall,

553.
Swallow, WiU. de, 178.
Swartmoor Hall, 536, 537.
Swinfflehurst, Mr., of Park Hill, 325.
Swinlegh, John de, 231.
Swyneshead Abbey in Lincolnshire, some

account of, 571.
Swynlegh, John de. Vicar of Winwick,

261.
Sylcock, Thomas, Chaplain of CUtheroe,

320.
Syngleton, Ann, wife of Evan Wall, 417.

Tabley, Lord de, 455, 478.

Talbot, Ann, daughter of Thomas, 271.

Talbot, Bishop ofOxford, 576.

Talbot, Dorothy, daughter of John, of

Salebuiy, 289.
Talbot, Edmund, and Jane his wife, 281.
Talbot, George, of Dinkloe, Esq. 295.
Talbot, John, Esq. 295.

616

INDEX.

Talbot, Mr. Junes, Minuter of Arkholm,

485.
Talboty Mr. Bieluurd, of Burnley, 316.
Talbot, Nicholas, of Bashall, 476.
Talbot, Sir Thomas, of Hawdley Hall,

27a

Talbot, Thomas, Clerk of the Tower Be-

oords, 279.
Talbot, Thomas, of Bashall, 281 .
Talbot, Thomas, of Salebniy, 279.
Tarbock Hall, 179.
Tarbok, John, 176.
Tarleton, 368; an aneient Chapel there,

369; St. Helen's Well,maoh resorted

to, afterwards desecrated, 369.
Tarleton, Edward, 226.
Tatbam Fell Chapel, 488.
Tatham Hall, 488.
Tatham Manor independent, 487.
Tatham, Admiral, of HombY Castle, 483.
Tatham, Nicholas, son of John, Esq. 480.
Tatham Her. Sandford, Viear of Dalton,

483.
TathamI William de, 487.
TattersaU, Christopher, of Bownham,

330.
TattersaU, John, 341.
TattersaU, Peter, 336.
T^nnton, John de. Precentor of Uneolm

364.
Taylor, Clement, 610.
Taylor, Col. 204.
Taylor, EUzabeth, wife of Comeliiu

Luigton of Kirkham Esq. 419.
Taylor, Henzy, 610.
Taylor, James, 466, 621.
Taylor, John, of Moretoa HaU, Esq. 288,

302
Taylor, Miles, of lindaU, 606,
Taylor, Mr., of Lending, 610.
Taylor, Mr. John, Inoombent of Alt-
ham, 308.
Taylor, Mr. Thomas, Minister of Colton,

610.
Taylor. KeT. Zachaiy^ of Kirkham, 419;

. AbigaU Ward, his widow, 419.
Taylor, Rer. Zachajry, Bector of Croston,

316, 364^ 367, 419: his wife Barbara,

daughter of Shr Edward Stanley Bart.

419.
Taylor, Samuel, of Ecdeston and Moston

Esq. 204.
Taylo^Themas, 208.
Taylor, Thomas, Corate of CUtheroe, 322.
Taylor, WiUiam, of Seword, 201.
Tempest, Col. Plnmbe, 162.

Tem]>eet, Stephen, 236.
Tennison, Aivhbishop^dlO.
Thistleton, James, of Wrea, 227.
Thompson, John, of Holme Island, Esq.

Thompson, Ber. Bobert, Vicar of Sjikfoy

Ireieth, 631.
Thorboc, 177.

Thoresby, Cardinal and Archbishop, 416.
Threlfall, Bev. Mr., of Lytham, 4^.
ThrelfaU, Thomas, of Whittingfaam, ^1.
ThrelsaU, Thomas, 403.
Thorsarton, Priory o^ 231.
Thorland Castle. 490.
Thurlow, Bev. Edward South, 194
Thumham HaU, 406.
Thursby, Bev. WiUiam, and Eleanor

Mary his wife, 314.
Tichbome, Hennr, 288.
Tichbome, Sir Henry, Bart. 288.
Tickle, Thomas, 163.
TUdesley, Ann, 186, 186.
TUdesley, Edward, 186.
TUdesley, Margaret, 266.
TUdesley, Bichard de, 266.
TUdesley, Sir Thomas, 186. 188, 277. 467.
TUdesley, Sur Thomas, of Ufibrd, 267.
TUdesley, Thomas, 186,
TUdesley. Thurstan, 186, 266.
Tisser. Bey. John, Executor of Ber.

Henry Halsted, 316.
Tockholes, 296; new Church buUt, 896.
Tomlinson, Mr. Bichard, Yicar <tf Dal-
ton, 612.
Tompson, Mr. Joseph, Minister of Hal-

saU, 217.
Topclyffe, Abbot of WhaUey, 818.
Torbock, Henry de, 177, 196.
Torbock, Bobert, 196.
Torboke, Dame CecU o^ 169, 170.
Torre's Cataloff^e of Incumbents, 631.
Torrer Chapel, 642; Archbishop Graa-

mer's Licence to, 642.
ToulBonfainUy,431; singular mistakes in

the ortlu^praplnr of the name, 432.
Toulson, George, of Stodces, Yorkshire,

433.
Towers, Christopher, jmir. M.P. 436.
Towers, GUbert de, 640.
Towers, Leonard, 627.
Towers, Leonard, of Holbeek, 629.
Towers, Bob. de, 640.
Towers, WUUam, 639.
Towgood, John, of Wrightington, 376.
Towneley, antiquity of the fiunUy of, 312.
Towneby HaU deseiibad, 312.

INDEX.

617

Towneley, Cecilia, daughter of Richard de,

345.
Towneley, Charles, Esq. 312, 313, 314,

315, 391, 563.
Towneley, George, of Leighton Conyers,

Esq., and Ann his wife, 559, 563.
Towneley, John, 311, 476, 563.
Towneley, Peregrine Edward, Esq. 313,

315.
Towneley, Richard, Esq. 312, 318.
Towneley, Sir John, 311, 345.
Towneley, Sir Richard, of Towneley, his

will, 311.
Towneley, WHUam, Esq. 312, 391, 561.
Townleian Marhles, 313.
Townley, Ann, wife of Rohert Parker,

Esq. 315.
Townley, Bernard, of Hurstwood, and

Agnes his wife, 314.
Townley, Edmund, of Royle, Esq. 315.
Townley, George, of Leighton Hall, Esq.

559.
Townley, Henry, 324, 476.
Townley, Henry, of Dutton, 476.
Townley, Jennet, wife of Mr. Ward, 476.
Townley, John, 311, 312,314.
Townley, Margaret, daughter and heiress

of Richard, wife of John Clayton

Esq. 326.
Townley, Margaret, of Royle, 315.
Townley, Mary Penny, wife of Richard,

Esq. 537.
Townley, Miles, 311, 312.
Townley, Mr. Edmund, 310, 311.
Townley, Mr. Nicholas, of Royle, 308.
Townley, Rey. Edmund, Rector of Shud-

hum, 313, 316.
Townley, Richard de, 476.
Townley, Richard, of Belfield, Esq. 472,

537.
Townley, Richard, of Dutton, 476.
Townley, Richard, of Royle, Esq. 313,

315, 316.
Townley, Thomas, 311, 316.
Townleys of Dutton, 472.
Townsend, William, 451.
Tozliche, John and Anne, 170.
Toxteth Park Chapel, 171; a tradition

of it, 172.
Trafford, Ann, 353.
Trafford, Edmund, Esq. 304.
Trafford, John, of Croston, 353.
Trafford, Sir Thomas Joseph de, 353.
Travers, John de, 464.
Travers, Laurence, of Natehy, 464.
Travers, WilUam, 464.

Travis, Agnes, 182.

Travis, Mr. Henry, 186.

Travis, Mr. Peter, Rector of Halsall, 173;

Dorothy his wife, 173, 175.
Tulket, 570.
Tulketh Hall, 464, 575.
Tulketh, Marmaduke de, 464.
Tunstall separated from Kirhy Lonsdale,

489.
Tunstall, Brian, Esq. 490.
Tunstall, Cuthhert, Bishop of Durham,

429, 491 .
Tunstall, Henry de, 489.
Tunstall, Sir Brian, 491 .
Tunstall, Sir Richard, 489, 490, 492.
Tunstall, Sir Thomas, 490.
Tunstall, Sir William de, 489.
Turner, Anthony, Vicar of Dalton, 544.
Turner, Mr. John, 523.
Turner, Nicholas, 267.
Turton, Mr. William, 395.
Twenge, Isahel, 557.
Twenge, Lucy, Margaret, and Katherine

de, 557, 558.
Twenge, Marmaduke de, 406, 557.
Twenge, Thomas de, 406, 557.
Tyler^s, Wat, Moh, 391.
Tyson, Rev. ^I., of Seathwaite, 530.
Tyson, Thomas, 530.

Ulverston, 511, 534.

Ulverston Church, originally dependant

upon Urswick, 518, 532, 535, 545.
Ulverston, Robert, Parson of, 518.
Up-HoUand, 258.

Urmston, Richard, Esq. 181, 182, 183.
Urswick, 511, 643.
Urswick Church, originally dependant

on Dalton, 518, 535.
Urswick, Adam, son of Bemulf de, 544.
Urswick, Christopher, LL.D. Rector of

Hackney, 544.
Urswick, Ehzabeth, wife of Sir Richard

le Fleming, 544.
Urswick, John, 544.
Urswick, Robert, of Urstnck, 448; EUcn

lus wife, 448,
Urswick, Vicar of, 516.

VaccHries of Rossendale Forest, 340.

Val, Hugh de la, 299, 309, 324.

Vale RotaI Abbey, 414.

Vause, Thomas, of Garston, 171, 209.

Venables, Hugh, Baron of Kinderton,

and Katherine Hoghton his wife,

472.

4r

618

XNDEX.

Venables, Joanna, danghter of Hugh,

200.
Venables, Mr. 208.
** yican^9y one of Henry VIII/s/' an

ironical term, 607.
VilUers, Matthew, de, 230; Beatrice hia

daughter, 230.
ViUien, Paganoa de, 230.
Yilliers. Robert de, 172.
Yisitelli, Mrs. Barbara, 266.

Waddington, Mr. Richard, 303, 330.

Waddington, Mn. Ellen, 303.

WainhouBo, Rev. G., Vicar of Kirby, 631 .

Wainhoose, Richard, Gent. 317.

Wainwright, Ellen, 171.

Wain Wright, John, 171.

Wakefield, Alexander de. Vicar of Orm»-

Idrk, 197.
Wakering, John, Bishop of Norwich,

431.
Walays, Henry de, 291.
Wahiys, Richard le, 161.
Waleton, Gilbert de, 222.
Waleton, Warren de, 673.
Waletone, 221.
Walker, Dr., 619.
Walker, Greoive, B.D., Minister of St.

Jolm the Evangelist's, London, some

account of him, 619.
Walker, Mr. William, Rector of Brindle,

349.
Walker) Mr. William, Vicar of Whalley,

308.
Walker, Rev. Richard, Vicar of Warton,

669.
Walker, Richard, of Seathwaite, 630.
Walker, William, of Lower Place, Gent.

266; Maiy his daughter, 266.
Wall, Ann, wife of Joshua Marriott, Esq.

417.
Wall, Anthony, 417.
WaU, NichohM, 417.
Wall, William, son of Evan, of Preston,

417, Ann his wife, 417.
Wallensis, Richard, Lord of lathorland,

161.
Wallis, Dr. 362.

Wallons, Mr., Minister of Ck>ulton, 608.
Wahnesley, Bartholomew, Esq. 286, 287,

322,324.
Walmesley, Catherine, wife of Robert,

Lord Petre, 288, 322, 324.
Walmesley, James, 297.
Walmesley, Mr., of Leland, 384.
Wahnesley, Richard, 278.

Walmesley, SirThomas,of Dnnkenhalgh,
283, 288, 296, 322, 324, 464.

Walmesley, Thomas, of Askton House,
Esq. 464.

Walmesley, Thomas, of Dimkenhalgh,
278

Walmesley, William, 297.

Walmesley, William Gerard, Esq. 260.

Walmsley, John, Esq. of Richmond
House, 661.

Walney, an island, 616; an account o^
617.

Walpole, Sir Edward, 409.

Walsh, Mr., Curate of Liverpod, 381.

Walter, Hervey, grand&ther of Theo-
bald, 448.

Walter, Hubert, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, brother of Theobald, 667.

Walter, MatUda, widow of Theobald,
448.

Walter, Theobald. 399, 4H ^48, 460, 466,
461, 667, 671.

Walthew, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert^
wife of Ralph Markland Esq. 260.

Walthew, Richard, 269.

Walthew, Robert, of Pemberton, Gent.
269.

Walton, 221.

Walton HaU, 222, 290.

Walton in le Dale, 289.

Walton, Ambrose, of Marsden Hall, 327,
336; Mary Banastre his wife, 306,
336.

Walton, Christopher, 390.

Walton, Elizabeth, wife of Richard
Cross, 222.

Walton, Henry, 336, 337.

Walton, Henry de, 318.

Walton, Jane, wife of F. Maw, Esq. 337.

Walton, John, 390.

Walton, John, Priest, 389.

Walton, MaiT, wife of John Pearaen,
Gent., 336.

Walton, Miss M. A. Wioe, 306, 308, 337.

Walton, Mr. John, 227.

Walton, Richard de, of Marsden, 336.

Walton, Robert, and Helen his danghter,
222.

Walton, Roger, and Margaret his dangh-
ter, 222.

Walton, R. T. Rowe, Esq. 306, 307.

Walton, Thomas, of Walton, Esq. 371»
379.

Walton) William de. Priest, 389.

Ward, George, 182.

Ward, Grace, 474,

INDEX.

619

Ward, Jennet, 476.

Ward, Mr., of Gapesthome, 239.

Ward, Mr., Hector of Walton, 171, 223.

Ward, Mr., Vicar of Leigh, 182.

Ward, Townloy, Esq. 476.

Ward, William, Bector of Heyaham,

656.
Wareing, Elizabeth, wife of Rot. R. H.

Roughsedge, 22a
Wareing, Mr. Joihoa^ of Buiy, 228.
Wareing Thomas, of London, 421.,
Wannnff, WiUiam, 422.
Warr, John de la, 673.
Warren, Dorothy, 289.
Warren, Earl, 313.

Warren, Edward, of Poynton, 289, 296.
Warren, George, Baron de Tabley, 289.
Warren, John, Esq. 464.
Warren, Sir Geoige, 289, 466.
Warren, Sir Thomas, of Poynton, 466.
Warren, William, Earl of, 221.
Warriner, Mr. John, Minister of Ck>lne,

326.
Warrington, 231.
Warrington Charity, 241.
Warrington Church, 231.
Warrington Manor, 231 .
Warrington School, 234.
Warrington, Trinity Chapel, 241.
Warrington, Geoive, second Earl of,

231; Mary his daughter and heiress,

231.
Warrington, Lord, 233.
Warton in Kirkham, 427.
Warton in the Deanery of Kendal, 667;

coniectores respectinff a ruined

builduig there, 676; the emhattled

Rectory House, 676; described, 676.
Warton, Dr., 440.
Waterhouse, Michael, 282.
Watt, Richard, of Bishop Burton, Esq.

167, 169.
Waverley Abber, in Sussex, 670.
Wavertree, Richard de, Prior of Nostell,

271.
Wax-penny, an Easter due, 676.
Wearden, Robert, 388.
Webb, Ralph, Parish Clerk of Rochdale,

361.
Webb, Sir William, 217.
Webster, Laurence, 206.
Webster, William, 180.
Wedacre, 410.
Wedicar, 410.

Welch, Robert, of Leek, Esq. 489.
Welch, Robert Henry, Esq. 491.

Weld, Cardinal, 218, 288, 422, 471, 476.

Weld, Edward, of Lulworth, 218, 288,
469.

Weld, Humphrey, of Lulworth Castle,
401.

Weld, Joseph, 218, 469.

Weld, Sir John, 401.

Weld, Thomas, 218, 471.

Weld, William, 288, 401; Elisabeth his
wife, 401.

Weldon, William, of London, 423.

Wemyss, Francis Charteria, 6th Earl of,
482.

Wemyss, James, fourth Earl of, 482.

Wemyss, Lord, 404.

Wentworth, Godfrey, of WooUey, M.P.
334.

Werden, William, 666.

West, William, 443.

Westby Hall. 417.

Westby, Bridget, daughter of John, 448.

Westby, John, 448, 469.

Westby, Mi^or Greorge, 448.

Westby, Mr., of Mowbrick, 418.

Westby, Thomas, of Mowbrick, 448.

WesUeigh, 180.

Westminster, Robert, Marquess of, 266.

Wetherley, William, Vicar of Black-
bum, 276.

Wethney,671.

Whalley, 297.

Whalley Abbey, 302.

Whalley, School of, 302, 489, 490.

Whalley Ann, 260.

Whalley, James, of Park, 323.

Whalley John de. Presbyter, 299.

Whalley, Mr. 162.

Whalley, OUyer, 189.

Whalley, Pennington^ Esq. 416; Marga-
ret his wife, widow of Cuthbert
' CUfton, 416.

Whalley, Rey. Thomas, of Hindley, 266.

WhaUey, Richard, 463.

Whalley, Robert, 420.

Whalley. Roger de, 300,

Wheate, Sir Thomas, 377.

Whiston Hall, 204.

Whitaker, Dr., of Whalley, 241, 303,
336 346.

Whitaker, Mr. James, of Hoole, 378.

Whitaker, Mr. Thomas, of Symondstone,
302,

Whitaker, Rev. R. N., of Whalley, 429.

Whitaker, Robert, M.D., of Healey,
some account of his family, 316.

Whitaker, Thomas, of Hobne, 336.

620

INDEX.

White Chftpely in Goosnargh, 427.

White Hall, 284.

White Bent, 171.

White, Ann, daughter of Charles, F.R JS.
293.

White, Mr. Peter, Minister of Ponlton,
647.

White, Richard, Esq. 314.

White, Robert, Gent, 449.

Whitefield, Richard, 225.

Whitehead, Rev. Thomas, Rector of
Eccleston, 372; Rector of Halton,
653.

Whitehead, Richard and John, 263.

Whitewell, in Boland Forest, 346.

Whitham, Dr. 232, 236.

Whitmore, William and George, of Lon-
don, 607.

Whittacre, William, of the Holme, 309.

Whittaker, John, 472.

Whittaker, Mr. George, of Downham,
330.

Whittaker, Rey. John, the Manchester
Historian, 241.

Whittem Abbey, in Galloway, 571.

Whittingham, Mr., of Whittingham,
294.

Whittingham, Robert, 466.

Whittingham, Thomas, 294.

Whittington,491.

Whittington Hall, 492.

Whittle, Andrew, 376.

Whytehead, Robert, Chantry Priest of
Downham, 329.

Wigan, 242; the Rectors the Manorial
Lords, 242; Church described, 247;
recent improvements, 248; Chantry
of St. Mary, 247; sundry pious offer-
ings to the Church, 248 ; zeal of the
Hon. Colin Lindsay, 248.

Wigan Hall, 248, 250, 251.

Wilbraham, Edward Bootle, 176.

Wilbraham, Richard, of Rode Hall,
176.

Wildbore, Dorothy, 410.

Wildbore, Mr. Augustine, deprived Vi-
car of Lancaster, 432.

Wilding, Isabel, of Kirkham, 418.

Wilkins, Bishop, 463.

Wilkinson, H. 403. |

Wilkinson, Mr. 605.

Wilkinson, Mrs. Elizabeth, 280. i

Williamson, Dorothy, wife of Stephen, j
^ of Natland,437.

Williamson, Mr. William, of Hindley,
256. I

Willis, of Halsnead, some aceount of,

204.
Willis, Richard, Esq. and Lucy his wife,

266.
Willoughby, Lord, of Parham, 186, 396.
Wilson, Cnristopher, Esq. of Bardsea,

646.
Wilson, Elizabeth and John, 460.
Wilson, John, of Over Kellet, 550.
Wilson, Mr. Edward, of Nether Lerens,

490.
Wilson, Mr. Thomas, of Over Kellet, 651,

669; Margaret Braddyll his wife,

669.
Wilson, Sarah, wife of John Grale Esq.

646.
Wilson, Thomas, of Preston, Esq. 450;

afterwards ffrance, 460.
Wilson, William, 163.
Wilton, Thomas, Earl of, 266.
Wimmersley, 411.
Winmerleigh Hall, 410.
Winckley, Edward, Gent. 292.
Winckley, Frances, wife of Sir John

Shelley, 464.
Winckley, Thomas, 292, 466.
Winckley, Thomas, of Brockholes, Esq.

464; Sarah his wife, daughter of

William Plumbe, Esq. 464.
Winstanlev Hall, 248.
Winter, Mr. Jolm, 406.
Winwick, 260; the Manor annexed to

the Rectory, 261 ; no Vicarage, 261 ;

Church described, 263; rebuilt, 263;

munificence of the Rector, 263.
Winwick Hall, 264.
Winwick, Jo. de, of Huyton, 178.
Winwick, John de. Parson of Wigan,

243.
Wiresdale, 446.
Witchcraft, 296.

Withers, Mr., Vicar of Tunstall, 490.
Withers, Mr. Edmund, 654.
Withers, Mr. Thomas, Rector of Halton,

653, 554.
Withers, Thomas, 661 .
Wodcokke, William, 246.
WolfaU Hall, 179.
Wolfall, Thomas and Ann, 180.
Wolfatt, George, LL.D. 472.
Wolf house, 402.

Wolsett, Dr., Parson of Chipping, 402.
Wood, James, 227.
Wood, Joseph, of Ulverston, 536.
Wood, Mr. 209.
Wood, Mr. James, 268.

INDEX.

621

Wood, Mr. William, Curate of Brongh-
ton, 467.

Woodacre Hall, 410, 444.

Woodbam, John, 526.

Woodcock, James, 292.

Woodcock, Richard, 381.

Woodland Chapel, 531.

Woodplumpton, 455.

Woodroffe, Richard, of Burnley, 316.

Woods, Mrs. Hannah, 195.

Woodstock, Thomas of, Earl of Lancas-
ter, 258.

Worcester, Dean and Chapter, Patrons
ofWarton,558,565.

Worcester, Priory of, 576.

Worden HaU, 381.

Worden, William, Gent. 556,

Wordsworth, Dr. 520.

Wordsworth, William, the Poet. 520;
his Life of the Rev. Robert Walker,
and Dutton Sonnets, 530.

Workesley, Jordan de, and Margaret his
daughter, wife of Thurstan de Tildes-
ley, 255.

Worsley, Alice de, 329.

Worsley, Henr;^ de, and Johanna Green-
acres his wife, 329.

Worsley, Margaret de, 505.

Worswick, Mr., a Banker, 563.

Worthington, Bartholomew, 465.

Worthington, Dr., 260.

Worthington, EUames, Esq. 265.

Wra, Adam de, 426; Gerard his brother,
426.

Wray Green, 426.

Wray Meeting house, 481.

Wray School, 486.

Wright, James and Randal, 184.

Wright, John, Minister of Billinge, 253.

Wrigh^ Mr. Robert, of Liyerpool, 505.

Wright, WilUam, a Blacksmith, 403.

Wrightington Hall and Park, 373, 376.

Wrightington, Ann, wife of Robert
Dicconson, 371.

Wri^tington, John, of Wrightington,
Esq. 371.

Wrightington, Robert, 466.

Wrightington, Sir Edwaid, 468.

Wroe, Dr^ Warden of Manchester, 306;
Rey. Thomas, his son, 306; his wife
Mary, daughter of Ambrose Walton
Esq. 306, 337; Rot. Richard, Rector
ofRadclifre,306, 336.

Wyatt, Mr. R., 8.T.B. 245.

Wyatt, Mr. Richard, 245.

WycoUer, 326.

Wygan. 243.

Wykeoller, 327.

Wytteworth, Rye. 341.

Tate, Tristram, Chantry Priest of Padi-

ham, 344.
Tates, Joseph, Esq. 280.
Yates, Mr. Joseph, 280.
Yates, Mr. Robert, 232.
Yates, Mr. WUUam, 280.
Yates, WiUiam, of Bury, Esq. 372.
Yates, William, M.A., Rector of Eecles-

ton, 372.
Yealand Conyers, and Yealand Red-

mayne, 5^
Yealand, Roger de, 244.
Yeland. 563.
Yelland, Adam de, 563.
Ynce, Ellen, wife of John Gerard, 249.
Ynce, Richard de, 249.
York, John, Archbishop of, 415.
York, Thoresby, Archbishop of, 417.
York, Walter, Archbishop of, 547.
Yve, Roger, Clerk, founder of Battlefield

College, 449.

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